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POSTCARD: DENNIS, 'LOVING BIRTHDAY GRETTINGS TO MY DEAR WIFE', ROSES IN GLASS COUPE

1915
Overview

Horizontal grey postcard with 'Loving Birthday Greetings / to my dear Wife' in swirly decorative black font across the top long edge. On the left there is a glass coup with a flared metal base wthat is filled with roses in pink, orange and yellow. There are four roses on the ground beside the coupe. To the right ther is a poem in decorative type within a cream framed box. The poem reads: 'May your Birthday be so joyous, / And so full of sweet content, / That you'll evermore regard it / As the happiest you've spent. / May the year that is unfolding / Prove each day to be more fair; / May a bright path lay before you / E'en without a shade of care. / Lyle'

On the reverse there is a handwritten message in grey cursive which reads: 'To my dear wife in token of love / from Jim on the 28th anniversary / of her Birthday 17:10:1915'.

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Registration number
cwa-org-43-2025.185
Item type
Material
Width
138 mm
Height or length
89 mm
Year
Statement of significance

Sent by Jim Dennis to his wife Lillian on her 28th birthday.

Last modified
Thursday, 17 July, 2025
Completeness
83
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