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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Re: Clavering's unisex cricket team - c 1910-20s?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:52:28 +0100
References: <000001c688d6$76d29950$0202a8c0@Vaio> <01ea01c688f3$0c834dc0$59220a52@COOPER>


In the heyday of the picture postcard when they were all the rage and
everyone was collecting them, from about 1902-4 to 1920s or so, I believe it
was often cheaper to buy job lots of photos in postcard form than single
photos. Postcards were generally smaller, produced on cheaper card, mostly
had a simple reverse instead of the ornate advertising blurb and trade marks
printed on the reverse of more expensive photos and were therefore cheaper
and quicker to produce than C de Vs or cabinet pictures. You could buy a
number to give or send to family and friends - and to your beloved to keep
while you were parted by war time service. Postcards became so popular that
the vast majority of photos were produced in postcard form during this
period.

Colleen


----- Original Message -----
From: "jackycooper.clav78" <>

> Collection - it seems odd that it is a postcard, I have always thought it
> was just a local photograph. Cricket is still played on Hill Green in
> Clavering, but alas no ladies team today!
> Jacky
>
> Jacqueline Cooper
> Clavering Local History Recorder

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