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Postcard: Rain-soaked Man on Allotment

A comic postcard of a man in a raincoat, hat and spats, cowering from a shower with a spade next to a tree at an allotment with a caption along lower edge ‘Talk about making hay when the sun shines, have you ever tried digging your allotment when it doesn’t’. Published by National Series and postmarked 26 August 1919, addressed to Mr G Fusley (?) Clapton.

Ref: 2013.053

Artist

National Series

Materials

Paper, printed

Theme

Postcards

Year

c.1919

Collection No:

2013.053