Author Archives: Magicfingers

Today’s card shows Belgian artillery ‘on guard’, the officer in the foreground looking somewhat rakish, I would hazard to say.

German infantry slaughtering attacking British cavalry, St. Quentin, 27th August 1914. 

Anything you can do…… 

Well that’s not very interesting, is it?  Bear with me, though.  You may find the rest more entertaining.

Wait for it. 

Inspired by Daisy’s exceedingly helpful piece of research on the location of the image on one of yesterday’s postcards, it once again seems appropriate to make a change for today’s. So here we have a colour image showing the cathedral … Continue reading →

Two cards today, both of which were bought, along with a couple of others, in the early 1980s for a few francs from a seller outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, so I suppose these are what, decades later when … Continue reading →