July 18, 2026
Tag: Tennyson
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My Bargain Friday AND Bonanza Saturday
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A collector arrives a day early for the Old Dominion Postcard Show. So she browses the local used bookstore and comes across a coverless and battered copy of Alfred Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, for which she pays $2 plus tax. She reads it through and, next day at the show, finds the perfect postcard to illustrate…
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July 6, 2023 4 Comments
“Would you?” could be a conditional question, because it is often followed by, “… if I did …!
This set of twelve postcards asks the question but the illustration answers it in ways that are sometimes funny but often misunderstood since the one-hundred-plus year-old cards exhibit humor from a much different time.