“Please send home that Shirt you borrowed.” postcard
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Please send home that Shirt you borrowed. C-122–26. 450.
A curious early postcard asking for the return of a borrowed shirt. Could this be a catchphrase from a forgotten song or play? Or was it just a silly postcard to send to a friend?
This is another in a series of puzzling requests and questions that appeared on postcards and acquaintance cards in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See also:
Please send home that shirt you borrowed.
When are you going to pay the old lady for your last week’s washing?
The typeface with the unusual weight distribution was issued by J. Haddon & Co. in London as Harquil before 1904, and also by the Hansen Type Foundry in Boston as Tokio before 1909. The postcard is undated.
