Friday 19 June 2009

PFF: Happy Birthday


The stamp has been removed and the postmark with it.  The date I believe to be 1923.

That wasn't the year of my birth (honest!) but today does happen to be my birthday.  When I was little, and first started school, I found that I shared my birthday with another girl in my year.  I was completely taken aback when I discovered.  Until then I had thought 19 June was my very own special day. However, I've now managed come to terms with the idea and would like to greet anyone else who shares the day with me.  Have a lovely day!

The card is a vintage Raphael Tuck & Son postcard, in their Gem Glosso birthday series.  Apparently Tucks were one of the larger producers of postcards, based in London but with printing houses in Paris and New York as well, but sadly their the history, records, original paintings and postcards were destroyed during air raids in World War II.

A post for Postcard Friendship Friday

24 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Sheila! How exiting! Do you have anything planned for tonight? Dinner.. Movie? This gives me an excuse to eat birthday cake with tons of frosting! My birthday is Dec. 25 and I still haven't come to terms with the fact that I have to share the day with Jesus!

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  2. PS. hehe! I posted your link in Mr. Linky:)

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  3. Thank you Marie. :) I did have something planned which involved a trip to Versailles. We postponed it until next weekend in the hope of better weather. Yesterday we had unbroken sunshine and regretted the postponement. This morning it's pouring!! So maybe, just maybe, next weekend will work out.

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  4. Happy birthday Sheila! I love vintage stuff like this but it makes me sad as the older generation passes on and we lose so much of our heritage.

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  5. Happy Birthday Sheila!
    A lovely postcard....

    Have a beautiful day today and a beautiful weekend as well.

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  6. happy birthday to you, happy birthday to sheila, happy birthday to you(sing...)
    my son's birthday is on the 16th of June.He is 18 this year.
    Hope you have a wonderful celebration!

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  7. Hi Sheila!
    Happy Birthday! Your card is really beautiful.
    debby

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  8. Very nice card. And have a wonderful birthday.

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  9. oh!!! happy birthday! :D and happy PFF too, of course!
    and tomorrow is my birthday! :P

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  10. happy birthday....what a lovely card!
    enjoy the weekend.
    chasity

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  11. Many happy returns, Sheila. And many more years of remembering and things to remember.

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  12. Happy Birthday, Sheila.

    The Tucks information was rather timely for my PFF blog post

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  13. oh, happy birthday!
    and i loved the card :)

    have a great weekend xx

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  14. Lá Breithe Sona - Happy Birthday Sheila!
    From the Clontarf side of Dublin (haha).

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  15. that's such a darling birthday postcard! oh, by the way, i don't recall seeing a lot of red mailboxes in quebec or montreal a few years back either. the mailbox visibility is probably an ottawa thing. :P

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  16. Happy Birthday!! I love the postcard...so pretty!

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  17. Happy birthday love your postcard. You are special even if someone else is born on that day.

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  18. Hello Sheila...

    Just dropping by to wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY! What an interesting thing do, 'a postcard a day' and living a nomadic life. I like that (:

    Hope you have a nice celebration. Take care..

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  19. methinks t'were time to wish thee a happy birthday; in fact, methinks the wishes are m'be b'lated. :)
    (sweet card!)

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  20. Happy belated birthday! While close, I don't quite share birth dates with you. Mine is the 14th. We do share a sign though...Gemini...or as a fellow June birth person calls us Geminice.

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  21. Happy happy birthday! Thanks for sharing that beautiful card you still keep.

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  22. I worked as a cleaning lady for a few years and one of my clients was married couple who had the same birthday as each other and as it turned out...the same day as mine! October 18th. They were my most difficult clients hahaha

    I hope you had a very happy birthday.

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  23. Thank you all for your very kind wishes. I had a lovely birthday, but the best is yet to come! My birthday treat will happen during July.!

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