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.

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!

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?

Buried Treasure Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Buried Treasure Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Black children making living sand castles on the beach. Art by H Dix Sandford.

One of a set of 6 postcards in Raphael Tuck & Sons, Happy Little Coons Series V, number 9299.  (I'm cringing at the racial epithet; yet it does provide a glimmer of social history insight to that age, the early 1900s). There series was issued in February 1907. More information at TuckDB

Passive Resistance Grandpa Come Play at the Seaside artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Passive Resistance Grandpa Come Play at the Seaside artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Come on, Gramps! Let's build a sandcastle, paddle in the sea, get an ice cream.... Oh, he says, feigning old age, I'm too old for such things but somehow he manages to allow himself to be swayed and is dragged off for a day of sunburn & sand between the toes.... and the best day he's had in years with ones so young.

Passive Resistance Perhaps Just A Drop artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Passive Resistance Perhaps Just A Drop artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Perhaps just a drop... a bracer to strengthen me during this bone cracking rail journey from hell. Yet again temptation presents itself, here in the guise of the jovial country squire, offering just a snort to the pious preacher. Passive resistance, hard to muster, gives way to a tipple or two to shorten the journey. 

From artist L Thackeray's Passive Resistance series for Raphael Tuck & Sons, circa 1904. More details here.

Passive Resistance - The Game is Up! Caught Smoking! artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Passive Resistance - The Game is Up! Caught Smoking! artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Two schooboys in top hats & canes sneak a quick cigarette only to face imminent discovery by a schoolmaster rounding the corner.  Another card in L Thackeray's Passive Resistance series for Raphael Tuck & Sons.

The Tuck Aquarette series was first issued in March 1904, still appearing in Tuck's 1912 catalogue.  The set of 6 cards was sold in the UK, US and Canada at the height of the Golden Age of postcards. 

The Artist

The Artist

The artist starts out with a high hope,

For "the higher ideals" he will grope:

But before very long

He changes his song,

And draws pictures to advertise soap!