Late 1910s UK lot 4 Raphael Tuck postcards Oilette women’s fashion

$25.00 CAD

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All part of the UK’s Raphael Tuck OILETTE Connoisseur series. Art after original drawings by MARJORIE MOSTYN.

All mailed to same young girl in Scarborough

FLOWER MAIDENS set 1916

LILY Smiles, graces, gentleness, her only arms Beattie

GIRLS OF TODAY set

AU REVOIR!


BEAUTY'S SMILE (2993) set 1917

Beautiful in form and nature LONGFELLOW

Woman in lilac dress, red hair, looking front/left 

Horizontal crease upper

PEBBLES ON THE BEACH (2977) set

A MERRY MERMAID 1916

Girl in green bathing costume & hat 

Bit of poatmatf ink UR

 

Raphael Tuck & Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London in October 1866, selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, which was their most successful line. Their business was one of the best known in the "postcard boom" of the late 1890s and early 1900s.