Thanks Nicki, I will do that.
This is a terrible time waster. I am spending hours going through what is a large collection of cards. I had forgotten how many wonderful pictures I have.
Serious collectors like to have unposted cards, but I prefer being able to see when my cards were posted.
Sometimes fascinating history is in your hand...............
The top card is typical of the postcards that people had printed using a family photograph. The dogs have their names in ink underneath the photo, Weck and Jill. The writer 'Bob' is writing to Miss F Kennedy at Wentworth Place, Wicklow, Ireland, and the Card was posted from the Isle of Wight in 1906.
Bob writes " aren't the dogs nice"
I have another from the same writer, to the same recipient, showing Weck by himself.
The bottom card here is wrtten in pencil. On the top is written " on active service", the postmark shows it was posted from a Field post office on 18th December 1918 to a Mrs A Short of Brighton, England, and is signed Your loving Albert x x x x x x.
It has a red oblong stamp across it that says it was passed by Censor No. 777.