Happy Easter - vintage Easter postcards

I have definitely blogged about Easter postcards before but not sure I included these slightly more 'quirky' ones. Although a bit tatty, I like the first one best, and am curious of the use of the word 'attend' in that context ... seems unusual. Happy PFF and Happy Easter.

May Easter Joy Attend You, c.1911

Easter Thought, c.1916

To Wish You A Happy Easter, c.1909

Easter Greetings, c.1901

As usual lots more vintage postcards and vintage magazines on my web site

Vintage Easter Greetings Postcards

Rather than paste in all of my vintage Easter postcard individually I've decided to put them into an embedded slideshow. It lacks the personal touch but I seem to have 101 other things I need to do at the moment. Full descriptions of the postcards can be found in my vintage easter greetings postcards Flickr set and also on my own postcards web site

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Easter vintage postcards by Raphael Tuck

Ok, so I went a bit early by talking about vintage Christmas postcards in November, but I'm about to beat that by writing about Easter vintage postcards. Having just received a batch of these, all published by Raphael Tuck, I felt compelled to blog about them, even though we're not passed Thanksgiving yet.

The majority of the Easter postcards I came across have an embossed silver cross and an embossed floral design, accompanied by a short verse. As you would probably expect, unlike the bright colours of the vintage Christmas postcards, the colours on these Easter postcards are considerably more subtle and toned down, comprising of delicate, light blues, lilac and magnolia.

The ones I have all date to around the early 1900's and were posted to and from the UK, USA and Canada.

I have quite a backlog of postcards to process properly, so it will be a while before these end up on my Flickr site or my own web site, so please enjoy these two samples for now ... and who knows, I may actually post the rest in time for Easter.