Woman Sending Care Package to WWI Soldier, "Du cœur au front"

Original Vintage Card

Price: $19.95

Stock #:

1072675

Type:

Postcard

Artist:

Xavier Sager

Publisher:

A. Noyer

Postmark:

1917 Jun-04

Stamp:

Free

Size:

3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Publisher's Series #:

Série n° 11

Recipient Address:

Mrs. A B. Clifford
234 Cauldon Road
Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire
United Kingdom

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Additional Details:

Illustration shows a woman in a kimono-style robe packing a box labeled "Mr Secteur Postal N°" with a pipe and gifts for a soldier at the front. Inset shows soldiers in a trench. French text reads: "Je vous envoie avec une pipe neuve, mon cœur et mille millions de baisers." (I send you with a new pipe, my heart and a thousand million kisses.) The back contains a message dated June 2, 1917, from Arthur on active service to Elsie.
From the Peggy Hawksworth Collection

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Back:
46 On Active Service. Saturday, 17. Xavier. Sager My Dear Elsie, Thank you • very much for the paper I received today. I have / no news, except about & the weather, which is still fine. Buck up, kid. Best love, Fantaisies trichromes. Du cœur au front Ever Your Alther xxxxxx Fabrication française. ELD POST பப 17 HA Mrs. A. B. Clifford OFFICE 234 Cauldon Road, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.

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Woman Sending Care Package to WWI Soldier, "Du cœur au front"

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