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Cute UK postcard of a child with a Mountie hat and wrapped in the Canadian Red Ensign flag. Drawn by Flora White.
On back:
French text on back, dated February 1920.
Flora White 1878-1953 British, b. Brighton
White was a children’s book illustrator whose imagery was also used on postcards.
Photochrom Co. Ltd. 1896- London and Tunbridge Wells, England
This firm originally produced Christmas cards and became a major publisher and printer of tourist albums, guide books, and postcards that mostly captured worldwide views as real photos or were printed in black & white, monochrome, and color. They also published many advertising, comic, silhouette, novelty, panoramic, and notable artist signed cards in named series as well. The number of titles Photochrom produced may exceed 40,000.
www.metropostcard.com