Gisborne looking South
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Postcard: black and white photographic image of Gisborne looking South. At the top of the image is: Gisborne looking South. At the bottom of the image is: Marsh Photo. There is a handwritten X in black ink on the roof of one of the houses in the foreground of the image.
Printed on the reverse is: New Zealand Post Card. Space for communication. C. W. Muir series.
Handwritten on the reverse is: to: Miss D Parker, The School, Maungakaramea, Whanganui, Nth Auckland, from: Di, undated, with a postmarked half penny stamp.
The message reads: Dear Dot, So you were unable / to attend Cassie's wedding? It / must have been a disappointment / At last Elsie wrote to me, every- / thing passed off well she said. / How are you keeping dear? / Do you recognise X. / It is taken from that hill which Mrs / Allan & you climbed that evening. / Mr & Mrs Allan have left Australia / for China. Your letter & my letter / card must have crossed on the way. / Sent some Gisborne p.c's to Mona & / actually dropped Aunt Ray a letter card. / Wonder if she will acknowledge it if / not, won't write again. I said that before. / Had such a nice letter from Aunt Lucy. They were to spend their June Holiday at Solway Firth. / Much love / from / Di.
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Charles Muir (b.1878, d.1943): Retailer
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Printed on the reverse is: New Zealand Post Card. Space for communication. C. W. Muir series.
Handwritten on the reverse is: to: Miss D Parker, The School, Maungakaramea, Whanganui, Nth Auckland, from: Di, undated, with a postmarked half penny stamp.
The message reads: Dear Dot, So you were unable / to attend Cassie's wedding? It / must have been a disappointment / At last Elsie wrote to me, every- / thing passed off well she said. / How are you keeping dear? / Do you recognise X. / It is taken from that hill which Mrs / Allan & you climbed that evening. / Mr & Mrs Allan have left Australia / for China. Your letter & my letter / card must have crossed on the way. / Sent some Gisborne p.c's to Mona & / actually dropped Aunt Ray a letter card. / Wonder if she will acknowledge it if / not, won't write again. I said that before. / Had such a nice letter from Aunt Lucy. They were to spend their June Holiday at Solway Firth. / Much love / from / Di.
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The "Marsh Photo" printed on the bottom of the front of the postcard refers to (I believe) the photographer Robert George Stanley Marsh
- Amelia Wilson posted 4 months ago.
I have this postcard - my one is dated as 15/12/1909 (written by the postcard sender) with a 1/2 penny postage stamp. The postcard publisher (C. W. Muir) printed this postcard in Saxony. Other postcards showing pictures of Gisborne from the C.W. Muir series include "Kaiti Bridge and Post Office Gisborne", and "Roebuck Road Bridge Gisborne"
- Amelia Wilson posted 4 months ago.