Postcard
Collection object
2002.0102
H. 9.6 W. 13.9
Postcard, colour. General election 1918, 'The gun to win the day'. GHB, Dublin. Drawing of soldier standing beside artillery piece, its barrel inscribed 'Organisation', the gun pionting towards the rising sun behind a hillock, over the sun, curved, 'General / Election. Highland plateau landscape, heather in foreground l., inscribed above margin bottom l., 'The gun to win the day'. Artists initials, G.B., at l. edge one third way up. Black line around image, white margin to card, widest at top, very narrow l. and bottom. R/ Printed green, headed Post Card, divided by logo, a circle formed of a shamrock with initials on leaves, l., G, top, H, r., B, on a backlground of smaller green shamrocks, above, curved, Printed in, below, straight, Dublin. Long and short underline and double line vertical dovide with ornamental geometric top and bottom. Solid outline for stamp. "Made in Ireland" device in top l. corner, double circle enclosing celtic geometric pattern in double circle, 0 and 63J across central band, Deanta in Eireann curving around l. half between the pairs of double circles. Up l. edge of card: J.J. Walsh, Blessington Street. Not used.
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