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This anti-women's suffrage postcard was produced in the United States in 1909 by Walter Wellman using art from Louis D'Orsi. Wellman was well ahead of his time in the US as the suffrage movement wouldn't end until 1920 when women were granted the right to vote in the country, but the suffrage movement was raging in the UK at the time. The card wasn't used/posted until August of 1914 as the UK neared the end of the suffrage movement there.
The postcard features what was widely known in the UK as a coppette - on the postcard called a coppess - a woman dressed as a cop in pants/an exaggerated full police uniform. The card was meant to mock the suffrage movement.D'Orsi is famed for both his art and his highly stylized signature that looks exactly nothing like his name.
The message on the back doesn't mention the message on the front. The sender asks the recipient to send her an item she wanted from a catalog and asks her what she'd charge her from her 'combings' to make her a braid for her hair to replace her faded one.
Overall, the postcard is an interesting commentary - on both of its sides - of the times.
The card will ship in a sleeve, inside a hard case, and a rigid mailer.
