Bush Blacksmith, Gippsland [postcard, 1904]

[Editor: This postcard, which incorporates a photograph of a blacksmith’s premises in the bush, is postmarked 1904.]

Postcard, with a photograph of a blacksmith's premises in the bush (1904) — Front of postcard

Australian postcard (1904) — Reverse of postcard

[Front of postcard]

Bush Blacksmith, Gippsland

[Handwritten text, in italics]

Ebaenzis
The Avenue
Windsor

Is our new address should you ever be over in Prahran.
Shall be pleased to see you.
The Avenue is off High St.
We are next door to Vicarage.
A very Happy Xmas & glad new year.

E Nelson-Richardson

[Description: A photograph of a blacksmith’s premises in the bush.]

[Reverse of postcard]

Post Card

The address to be written on this side.

[Handwritten text, in italics]

[Addressed to:]

Miss Hetty Lloyd
Burwood Road
Hawthorn

[No identifying information about the manufacturer was included on the postcard.]

Source:
Original document

Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 140 mm. (width), 90 mm. (height).

The property name of the sender was difficult to decipher; a search of the Trove site was carried out for various possibilities (Ebaensio, Ebaenzio, Ebaensis, Ebaenzis, Elraensio, Elraenzio, Elraensis, Elraenzis), but with no luck. The Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne directories for 1900 and 1905 were checked for any such property name (and for the surnames Nelson, Richardson, and Prichard), in The Avenue, Windsor (although The Avenue was listed under “Prahran” in the directories) but with no results.

The name of the sender was difficult to decipher; it could be “E Nelson-Richardson” or “E Nelson-Prichard Snr”.

The name of the addressee should be “Lloyd” (not “Loyd”); the only people listed with that surname in the Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne directory for 1905, resident in Burwood Road, Hawthorn, were Miss Lloyd (dressmaker) and S. Lloyd & Son (van proprietors), both entries being listed at no. 207 Burwood Road (north side), Hawthorn.
See: Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne, Suburban and Country Directory, Melbourne (Vic.): Sands & McDougall, 1905, p. 338 (p. 411 of the PDF) [State Library of Victoria]

[Editor: For ease of reading, the original text has been separated into paragraphs, and punctuation has been inserted as deemed appropriate.]

[Editor: Changed “Loyd” to “Lloyd”.]