A Q Southwick, of New York was a short lived publisher of quality cards operating for about a year in 1907-8, which are of particular interest because they published several sets of F S cards - almost certainly shortly after the London View Company closed down in August 1907.

Most of their cards have a dated copyright statement on, and some had series numbers. A google search revels two different groups of cards with 1907 copyright numbers. One group were greetings cards of large cities.

The other was a set of a dozen cards showing the gemstone and flower associated with each month of the year. No information is available on the artist and there appears to be no UK connection.

N10 - see Advice to ...

There then follows a number of sets numbered N10 to N23. These were presumably issued in number order and as the subject on N16 (which is copyright 1908) relates to the leap year it was presumably published in early 1908 - and the earlier undated cards were presumably published in late 1907.

The sets N10 to N13 are of particular interest because they are all card by F S, published without the signature, and with some words changed for the American market.

N11 - see Who Said Liar

N12 - See Mistakes will occur

N16 - See LeapYear

Could sets N16 to N18 be by "F S" prepared especially for the American market? All are unsigned (as are all A Q Southwick cards) and they are somewhat similar to his style, although the faces are more sharply drawn. None appear to have been published in the UK.

N16 was clearly prepared for publication in 1908 (a leap year). "No Wedding Bells for Me" was the title of a song published in the USA in 1906. and mentioned on cards by several other artists. All six cards in the set are known.  However there are similarities with the work of the American Artist, Rose Hyman.

N17 is based on the song "Said the Saucy Little Bird on Nellie's Hat" published in 1907. I have identified six cards in what is presumably a set of six.

I have so far identified five cards (out of six) in the set N18. One has a stamp indicating it was a sample being sold by the Souvenir Post Card Co.

While the artist remains unknown it seems more likely that Rose Hyman was the artist, rather than "F S"

N18 - see Affinity

(The US equivalent of a Valentine card)

N17 - see Saucy Little Bird

N19 - See Dear Hubby

N19 and N20 are a complementary pair of sets with the husband writing home to his wife (or vice versa) saying how he misses being at home - when the picture on the card tells a very different story. None of the cards are signed by the artist but a comparison with N11, N12 and N13 makes it almost certain they are by "F S". See "Pictures overflowing the frame."

N20 - Dear Wifey

So far I have identified five  "Dear Hubby" cards and four "Dear Wifey" cards - but presumably there are two series of six. There is no evidence that they were ever published in the UK..

It would seem that the above sets represent nearly all the output of A Q Southwick as a detailed search of ebay and google found only one other class of card - a series of the Hudson Tunnels, copyright 1908, with the Bee logo back - which fits in with the normal wide range of views published by the Souvenir Post Card Co.