"Beg pardon - I thought you were a letter box!": Postcard showing a caricature of a short-sighted suffragette wearing clothes in the colours of the Women's Social and Political Union (including a 'masculine' tie) having accidently hurled a bottle of ink at a soldier in a red and black uniform. Attacks on pillar boxes, including pouring ink inside to damage letters, were part of the tactics of civil disobedience adopted by militant suffragettes. The artist was Alfred Leete (1882–1933), best known for the 1914 First World War recruitment poster 'Lord Kitchener Wants You'

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