Thursday 10 March 2011

1970s postcard



One delight of keeping endless piles of old correspondence is that you occasionally come across artistic gems. This postcard was sent in the early 70s to me and my sister from our Dutch grandfather telling us, in the hand of his second wife, that he would be writing to us on sunday, thanking us for our letters and wishing us and our cat all the best. I wonder how many children write to their grandparents these days? Most likely they Skpe or even text. But this is a lovely reminder of the relationship that we had. The image, although a clog wearing child, was published in West Germany. The publisher's name is obscured, but it's typical of it's time.

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