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Accession No 1802.3437.3
Name/Title POSTCARD; It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary (3)
Brief Description This portrait-format postcard is printed on card with a glossy finish and features a hand-coloured photograph of a soldier sitting on a trunk beneath a canvas tent, writing a letter on his knee, with the superimposed image of a young woman standing with her hands on her hips in the top right corner.

The third verse of the song "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" is printed on the bottom: "IT'S A LONG, LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY (3). / Paddy wrote a letter to his Irish Molly O', / Saying, "Should you not receive it, write and let me / know! / If I make mistakes in spelling, Molly, dear," said he, / Remember it's the pen that's bad, don't lay the blame on me."

The postcard has not been filled out or posted and is one of a set of four.
Classification Postcard/Documentary Artifact/Communication Artifacts/Nomenclature
Primary Maker Bamforth & Co Publishers
Primary Prod Date 1914-1918
Primary Prod Period 20th century
World War I
Primary Prod Place England
Measurement Reading 13.9 x 8.6cm
Signature/Marks BAMFORTH (COPYRIGHT). THIS SONG ON SALE EVERYWHERE IN B. FELDMAN'S 6D. EDITIONS.
POST BCo CARD / STAMP / PRINTED IN BRITAIN / HOLMFIRTH / BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK SERIES NO. 4788/3 / PRINTED IN ENGLAND
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