Little Bo-peep has a Very Tiny Sheep…
June 24th, 2006 by Susannah
Featured Gem 6
Real Photo Postcard
‘Little Bo-peep has a Very Tiny Sheep’
Date: 19th October 1907
People: Unidentified
Postcard Back: My Dear Boy Blue, Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and hope you will not be rushed with work tomorrow, with love from Bo-peep. Addressed to: Mr Boy Blue, 98 Hope Street Brunswick, Victoria.
Notes: One from my collection of fancy dress costume photographs. Young Bo-peeps costume is fabulously detailed but I think the thing I like most is the very small sheep. How absurdly out of scale!
I wonder if she was in costume for a reason. It may have just been a novelty photo…but she could have been off to a fancy dress ball or something equally exciting!
I think I am a bit of a stickybeak. I enjoy reading and collecting old letters, diaries and postcards. Not only is the language often beautiful or indicative of the era, but the handwriting is often elegant and is such a dying art form these days. Even on this simple postcard, the flourishes of the uppercase letters are just lovely. (especially the D and W)
Don’t you just love the message? I like the way she has underlined her ‘name’. I wonder if ‘Little Bo-peep’ and ‘Boy Blue’ ended up happily ever after? I love messages laced with romance and intrigue!
