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Lady in Red Dress with Feathered Hat

All the following cards show a tall lady in a red dress wearing a hat with some kind of feather decoration. The Inter Art cards were by Fred Spurgin.

Could the slightly later "Green Back" cards also be by him? Clearly the artist who was active producing the Numbered [PC II] cards reused the idea repeatedly in many different contexts.

Inter Art Cards with the Red Lady (Published 1911)

Fred Spurgin produced many similar cards - often with far more elaborate hats

This vacant lot for sale

HOBBLE 846    Posted 1911

 

Not in these trousers

HAREM 850

4 & 24 July 1911

 

  

My wife has worn them a long time.

HAREM 860

 

The Red Lady in identified "Green Back" sets (Circa 1913)

The Red Lady seems to be a kind of unofficial signature, occurring once in each set (assuming incomplete sets are sets of 6)

204

Are you too long?

Get Married

and you'll soon become short

[PC II]

 

  

214

Beside the Sea-Side

We don't care, although we are absolutely on the rocks

[PC II]

  

677

Everybody's doing it!

This is what a sailor did!

[PC II]

226 Sea-side Weather

"Changeable"

[PC II]

  

654 When You are Single you can't afford a carriage and pair - Married you have too. -

[PC II]

  

111 [Adam & Eve]

Eve: "Not in that fig-leaf, Adam!"

[PC II]

 

Some of the other "Green Back" Ladies  (circa 1913)

(No yet allocated to sets)

133 He: "What are you thinking of, Darling" She: "Of you, Dear"

[PC II]

 

154 Marriage at first is all "billing and cooing" Then the cooing stops - but the billing goes on for ever!

[PC II]

309 The weather here is somewhat close - I'm wondering if it will get closer!

[PC II]

158

I was in an awful crush last night!

[PC II]

 

249

You'll have to wait a bit, Miss. She ain't got her stockings on yet!

[PC II]

 

250

You can find a girl at almost every watering place

but there are exceptions

[PC II]

 

304

"Well, Herbert, if i were a girl I'd be ashamed to show my legs like that!"

[PC II]

305

Ah! that prodigal son! and Oh! that fatted calf!

[PC II]

314

Man came into the world first

Woman came later

- and she's been coming later ever since!

[PC II]

See Adam & Eve