A really very big Wrench indeed
One example from the Edwardian era is the firm that used the publisher-credit “The Wrench Series” and the trademark of a wrench inside an oval – both of which are visible, upside down, at the top of the message-side of the postcard at the bottom of the right-hand page.
The firm’s founder was a young man of exceptional initiative called Evelyn Wrench, who was born in 1882 in County Fermanagh, into a prominent Ulster family, and educated at Eton.
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Hide AdAfter he left school, at the age of 17, he spent a number of months on the continent of Europe.
One day he was writing postcards to some of his friends when he was struck by how well produced German postcards were compared to those sold in England.
He then reflected that he must have sent at least two hundred picture postcards in the previous eight months.