A bowl of pink roses sits on a small wooden two-tier table, with a white envelope resting on the lower shelf. The printed verse below the flowers offers birthday wishes for joy and peace in the year ahead. Floral birthday postcards were a common way to send a short local greeting in the early twentieth century, pairing a simple still life with a few lines of verse.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Wishing you many
happy returns of the
day.
From Alice
Frank & Lovie.
Addressed to
Miss Welch
16, Lingfield Avenue
Kingston - on - Thames
England
Aged paper, edge wear, creases, rounded corners; no white border or linen texture.
Postmark: KINGSTON-ON-THAMES 10 AM 30 DEC (no year legible). Divided-back card with white border; chromolitho/embossed texture, not linen or glossy. Printed 'Import.' at left and card number 3271. Soiling, foxing and edge wear; stamp is a British 1d King George V. Message written in pen sideways on the message half.
Cite this card
Birthday greetings with roses, Kingston-on-Thames, circa 1911, postcard, c. 1911. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/birthday-greetings-with-roses-kingston-on-thames-circa-1911. Accessed November 2, 2026.
