A CHARACTERISTIC COAL-BURNING STEAM DRIFTER, CIRCA 1930. 1997. WITH EMBROIDERED NAME TAG.
£35.00
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
5.2 x 18.6cm, 4pp, card printed which houses a 5.2 x 18.6cm, 1pp card with tipped on embroidered name tag (in red and white).
The tag reads: “TOM, DICK OR HARRY”.
The card notes the boat names of drifters which being boys names are indeed “characteristic” as well as typical of the time. The phrase “Tom, Dick or Harry” is from an idiom – any Tom, Dick, or Harry”, meaning anyone thus making the naming convention universal. This card is almost an object multiple but we have decided to retain it in this catalogue as an artist’s card. VG+ but two faint marks on front near text.
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