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Posted: 28 Jan 2016

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WP2061 WPG - QUEEN VICTORIA MONUMENT

WP2061 WPG - QUEEN VICTORIA MONUMENT
POSTCARD

Date: Not evident. Unposted

Publisher / Photographer: Russell Lang & Co.

Notation: The message on th back is interesting to postcard collectors. It reads; "Dear Harriet are you making a leather cushion? I have given up the idea of making a silk PC one as now only seams able to get me the right kind of cards. I am sending you one leather one and will send you some more if you wish. I do not use the leather ones so first send me (??) Alice"

I hadn't heard of this before, but apparently Harriet was stitching together leather postcards (popular around 1905-06) to make cushions - while Alice was having some difficulty as she tried to do the same with silk postcards, also popular at that time.
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 wintorbos
wintorbos club
Stitching together leather postcards was popular - thrifty people in those days wouldn't have let an opportunity like that go to waste. The FAB patchwork cards from England were popular for that purpose. They were made with detachable silk patches. There is a series of Canadian provincial coats of arms of which I have one or two ... www.ipernity.com/doc/wintorbos/39436850
8 years ago.
 Canafornian
Canafornian club
I wasn't aware of the FAB card concept. Thanks!
8 years ago.

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