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Subiaco Museum > Records

POSTCARD: BIRTHDAY, 'MANY HAPPY RETURNS' WITH RED ROSE

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Birn Bros Ltd London

1930

Overview

Horizontal cream postcard with a painterly image of a red single red rose with green leaves laid down on its side. Above this in cursive black type reads: 'Many Happy Returns'. In the bottom right corner is a two line poem which reads: 'Every hour and day / unfolding, / Some fresh joy for you / be holding.' Three of the edges of the card are slightly waved, the shortner right edge appears to have been torn from a postcard book.

The reverse has a black handwritten message which reads: 'To my Wife on the 22nd anniversary of my seding her a Birthday Card / Oct 17th 1930 - from Jim your Lover. / It's your Birthday today and I wish you much joy, / With plenty of pleasures and nought to annoy, / may your year be happy, and your friends be true / With health and wealth and love is my wihs to you. / Twenty two years of our lives have passed, / Since I first wished the Sun to shine on you fair; / I still wish the same and I hope it will last, / For as I am with you that Sunshine I share. / from your one and only Jim xxxxx'

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2025.190

Item type

Material

Width

140 mm

Height or length

90 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Birn Bros Ltd London

Keywords

DENNIS (nee Philp), Lillian

Postcards, Other Than Subiaco

Year

Statement of significance

Example of a birthday postcard of the time. Sent by Mr Jim Dennis to his wife Lillian for her 44th birthday.

Last modified

Monday, 1 December, 2025

Completeness

83

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