While we recently saw that Tuck had a Grace Drayton imitator doing some cards, to my eye this appears to be the real deal, though it is unsigned. This was card #1000 in the Tuck "Glad Easter" series, and is undated but postally used in what just might be 1914 (the cancel is blurry).
I had no idea that the 'approved' adjective for Easter was once "Glad" until I was trying to do a little research on this card. Today "Happy Easter" is accepted just as much as "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year". I rather like Glad, it's a little more picturesque than the rather generic Happy.
Are they the Campbell Soup twins? They look exactly like them.
ReplyDeleteAh, Wee Billy, know ye not that Grace Drayton was the creator of the Campbell Kids? It's always easy to spot her work, because she had only one face for ny and all of her characters.
ReplyDeleteHello Allan-
ReplyDeleteThe term "Glad" for Easter was often seen as the fuller "Glad Easter Tidings", and once also, "Christmas Tidings". If you see late Victorian cards, not necessarilly of the Postal variety, the phrases have become commonly abrevieated to "Glad Easter" and "Christmas Tide". Perhaps moreso in British and Empire use.