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WWI Bamforth Song Series Postcards and Album

WWI Bamforth Song Series Postcards and Album

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Bamforth & Co. Ltd was a prominent publisher of collectible song postcards during the early twentieth century. These postcards were produced in series, typically consisting of three or four cards. Each card featured a different verse from a popular tune or a well-known hymn, along with an illustration.

This collection features 39 complete sets of WWI postcards, unused and not marked.

the collection features the following songs:

  • Thora
  • Abide with me
  • Where has my daddy gone to
  • Skylark
  • Your heart will call me home
  • God have you in his keeping
  • Mother Machree
  • Sweet Jenny Gray
  • Till the boys come home
  • Joan of Arc, they are calling you
  • For Killarney and you
  • When the Angelus is ringing 
  • Land of hope and glory
  • Somewhere in France dear mother
  • The girl I left behind me
  • My hero
  • Am thinking of you Bonnie Mary
  • Theres a little maid a dreaming
  • Till the sands of the desert grow cold
  • The land of Gra-ma-chree
  • Down home in Tennessee  try to forget you
  • Sweet Adeline
  • Theres a long, long trail
  • Nearer my Got to thee
  • I’ll dream of you
  • A broken doll
  • God keep you safe
  • Somewhere in sunset land
  • Only for you
  • A little bit of heaven
  • In friendships name
  • When you are a long, long way from home
  • Is it nothing to you
  • Never mind
  • Scenes that are brightest 
  • Boys on khaki, boys in blue
  • Its a grand site to see them going away
  • Its the Navy

 

 

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