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Paternoster Series by Fred Spurgin |
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This is where your money goes! The Paternoster Series No 55 |
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May I present you with a Pair of Kids? The Paternoster Series No 57 26 August 1910 |
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What is the meaning of this underhand behaviour The Paternoster Series No 63 |
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My time is valuable No 65 |
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Soled out? The Paternoster Series No 66
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Examples of cards by Frederick Spurgin in the Paternoster Series |
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I wish I'd had breeks on! No 501 11 June 1910 |
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Hoots! The Pibroch No 502 September 1910 |
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I'm fond of a wee drappie No 503 |
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Awa' Wi' Ye! No 504 |
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I'm nae sae verre weel the noo! No 505 August 1910 |
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I dinna ken whether I'm a laddie or Lassie No 506 12 September 1910 20 February 1911
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Don't swank! I can see through you. No 507 23 July 1910 |
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Bertie the Flirt, All Front, No Shirt No 508 7 September 1910 |
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Swank ! no number |
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You do swank in your new clothes No number 1910 |
I saw you swanking in the park No number |
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The light fantastic Signed Fred Spurgin Paternoster Series 13 September 1913 |
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A Love Offering Unsigned No 600 |
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Envy No 600 |
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Where do I come In No 600 |
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Cut No 600 Signed
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Can this be love! No 601 16 June 1910 |
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His Dear Girl ! No 601 September 1911 |
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Dare I? No 601 Signed |
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They Toil Not, but they spin No 602 26 October 1911 |
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Another Japanese Exhibition [no number] 1911 |
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A Japanese Tea Spoon! [no number] 22 August 1910? |
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How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night Like Softest music to attending ears! Romeo & Juliet No 603 |
That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! Orthello No 603 19 April 1911 |
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A Social Debate No 605 15 August & 22 November 1910 |
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As well be dead as not fashionable No 605 4 August 1910 |
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There's a woman at the bottom of it! Paternoster Series No 606 9 September 1910 |
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I can't see through this! Paternoster Series No 606 30 July 1910 |
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Love brought is good but love given unsought is better 12th Night No 606 3 February 1911 |
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There's something beneath all this Paternoster Series No 606 24 August 1910 |
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You're talking through your hat Paternoster [no number] 9 December 1911 [also 606] |
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Only to see her face again!Paternoster [no number] |
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Whose little chick is oo? Posted 1912 |
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I don't believe in the Goose-berry Bush, do you? The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. No 1002 |
Oft in the stilly Night
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| Avenue Publishing Christmas Cards by Fredk Spurgin | |||||||
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A Merry Xmas! The Words are few but the wish is true. The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Unsigned |
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A Happy Christmas! Hoping you'll have many large cheques on you! The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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Sweet Xmas Greetings The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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May your Xmas fare be of the best With nought to shock the Ladies No friends of yours consign you to Well! sanguinary Hades! |
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May nothing unforseen and startling Make your Xmas go contrary, Get rid of your bad habits, Keep a check on your Little Mary. |
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I will not send my greeting That all may hear from North to South But will whisper when I see you Just from mouth to mouth |
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A Merry Xmas hoping you have some great things before you The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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May you spend a Merry Christmas in the lap of luxury The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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To greet you with tuneful lay on this happy Xmas Day The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed December 1911 |
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Let's hope you'll have a good bust up And be as happy as a nigger But mind your joys don't run you Right into a big figure |
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I'll think of you this Xmas oft And hope that you're on something soft I wish (don't think I mean to tease) To you a life of love and ease (knees) |
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Peaceful be this Xmas Night Free from care and trouble May your joys be soft and light And may you not get double |
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A Merry Xmas hoping you won't have a drop too much this season! The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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A Merry Christmas hoping you'll not lose your head this season. The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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A Merry Christmas to you May this season not be miser-able in any way. The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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To wish you both a high old time To you and your old Dutch Let's hope that you will not fall out Nor take a drop too much |
Don't lose your head this Xmas time, If for lunch you get cold chop, Learn to take like cheerfully, Like the man on top |
May Xmas not be miser-able, But full of Life and Fury, What you give away in presents Is naught to anyone. |
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A Merry Xmas hoping you won't be taken in this day Pulling up the blind on Xmas Morn The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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Wishing you a Merry Xmas and no kid! The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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Wishing you anex-squeeze-it time this Xmas The Avenue Publishing Co. 60 Avenue Chambers W.C. Signed |
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Pulling up the blind on Xmas morn
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May your Christmas be Merry And all your friends kind May you leave all your cares And your troubles behind |
When Xmas comes with ice and cold And you are nearly freezing I hope that you will get a muff Which will do all the squeezing. |
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| Paternoster Christmas Cards by Fredk Spurgin | |||||||
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A Happy Christmas hoping you will be able to make both ends meet. The Paternoster Series No 607 Signed December 1910 |
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It is very plain that I wish you a Merry Xmas The Paternoster Series Unsigned |
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Remember that the end is near After the Christmas break Unless you put a good deal away You won't make both ends meet! |
Xmas has come round again, Let's drain the loving cup Altho' we quarrelled years ago I see you've mde it up. |
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