Easter Egg Malfunction postcard

Hopefully you did not receive a lemon instead of an egg for Easter. This young "toff" in his top hat & tux seems bemused by it all.

Happy Easter 2014!

   

Happy Easter!

Cards above from Colonial Easter series, Raphael Tuck

 

Oh, oh ... Change of breakfast plans...

Card from 750 series, M L Attwell, artist, Raphael Tuck postcard

Beauty on the Beach Black Children Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Beauty on the Beach Black Children Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

If you should ever wish to paddle in the sea, won't you make a splash with me?

From Raphael Tuck & Sons, Happy Little Coons, Series V, a set of 6 postcards, issued 1907. Find the full set at TuckDB  - or simply read the posts below.

Just As The Sun Goes Down Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Just As The Sun Goes Down Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Have I told you how much fun I had with you today? Let's do this again tomorrow.

Tired Out Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Tired Out Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

All that sun and sand ... followed by all that crying when we thought we were lost... well, I'm plumb tuckered out.  Nap time!

Lost! Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Lost! Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Children lost on the sands. How come whenever we turn towards the sea - and turn our backs on the beach - we lose track of where we are and who we are meant to be with?  

Lost!   Waaaaaaaaaa!  

Anyone seen a lifeguard?

The Catch of the Season Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

The Catch of the Season Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

What is it??!!  One finds all sorts of strange and mysterious things at the seashore - that place where the landlubbers' knowledge of things is muddied by the mysteries of the deep. What could it be?