A 1950s-era Boxing Day card from Ronald Searle also writing for his wife Kaye Webb (who is "elbow deep in washing up") thanks "Dearest June and Charles" for a set of knives. These knives—are they "super" or "superb?"—must be of the type whose blades fold into the handles as illustrated here on the headdress of an American Indian indulging in a peace pipe and sending, we are told, "A contented smoke signal." Presumably dating from the latter part of 1951-1960, the drawing possibly bears a thematic relationship to Searle's Holiday magazine cover of July 1959. The card was sold on eBay ten years ago for 369.99 GBP ($530).
The eBay seller failed to get the artist's name right in the main title of the listing:
The Holiday cover, not that you asked:
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The eBay seller failed to get the artist's name right in the main title of the listing:
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| Ronald Searle eBay Listing Ended February 19, 2009 |
Thanks to eBay for providing the translation…from British English:
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| Ronald Searle eBay Item Description |
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| Ronald Searle Holiday, June 1959 |
Note: Ronald Searle and Kaye Webb's modernist home at 32 Newton Road is the subject of Perpetua, the Ronald Searle Tribute blog, here.
Images of illustrated letters of this sort from the hand of Searle are just the sort of submissions welcomed here at Attempted Bloggery. Hint, hint.
Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:
Ronald Searle
Kaye Webb
Autograph Drawings, Signed
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