postcard

Two-sided monochrome/sepia-toned holiday greeting postcard featuring an illustrated branch of blossoms overhanging a cottage landscape on the front, accompanied by the printed Christmas verse: « May joy be yours this Christmas day, / And through the coming year; / May your life be wreathed in flowers, / Without a single tear. ». The reverse side features a divided back with « Post Card », publisher marking « GARTNER & BENDER PUBL’S CHICAGO » along the left margin, an affixed 1-cent King George V green Canadian postage stamp with a postal cancellation postmark, handwritten correspondence addressed to « Mrs Myrtle Anderson, Campbell River, B.C. », a handwritten holiday message (« a merry Christmas from Harvey & Lea »), and a pencil price notation (« 100 »).