Her Majesty Queen Alexandra
Postmarked Brighton, Ontario
1905
This patriotic postcard shows an image of Queen Alexandra. It is one of four cards in a series of portraits of royalty published by the Toronto Lithographing Co. Limited. The card features a pair of shields flanking the image—the crest of Canada on the upper right, and of Great Britain on the lower left. This card is known in Smith's The Canadian Patriotic Postcard Checklist as TGL1-003, and is considered scarce, however, it also bears a reference to W.R. Adams not found in the catalogue.
Below. a detail from the card
The card is published by Toronto Lithographing Co. Limited,
but also bears the text "W.R. Adams, Souvenir View Cards, Toronto, Can."
Below, the reverse of the card
The undivided back bears the text "Canadian Postal Card" and "The Address Only to be Written on This Side, Côté Réservé à L'Adresse". It is sent to M. Baraue in North Bay from E.A. Mackecknie. A short note states the sender has 125 cards now, and received 7 today, reflecting the intense interest in postcard collecting at that time.
