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There would be very few of us who wouldn\'t know the faerie tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but the question is, do you know the sanitised version, or the dark old faerie tale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm?

I was a strange child who always loved the villains in the dark old European faerie tales my Grandmother and Nanny used to tell me. I particularly liked the Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs because she was aloof, elegant and beautiful. I also liked her because she was clever and tenacious. We all know that Snow White was undone by a poisoned apple, but if you only know the Disney version of this tale, you may not know that in the original, the Queen tried to do away with her stepdaughter four times. Firstly, she tried by way of the huntsman who was to return with Snow White’s lungs and liver as way of proof of her death. When that failed, she resorted to do away with the child herself secondly by lacing her stays so tightly she stopped breathing. When that failed she resorted to her witch’s arts for her third attempt with a comb which had poisoned teeth, and then finally the apple that was so cleverly contrived that only half was poisoned, so she could convince gullible Snow White that it was safe to eat. Now that’s what I call a tenacious villainess!

This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.

This week the theme, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with an S” was chosen by Laszlo,Laszlo Papinot.

I decided that a selection of my faerie tale postcard collection, in particular the ones that feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be perfect. These cards all portray a part of the famous faerie tale: the beautiful and aloof wicked Queen at her mirror, Snow White with the seven dwarfs, Snow White pleading with the huntsman to have her life spared, the Queen in disguise offering Snow White the laces, poisoned comb and poisoned apple, Snow White in her glass coffin, the Prince coming across Snow White and finally Snow White awakening.

These faerie tale postcards date from between 1896 and 1925 and show how different Snow White appears according to the artists and the fashions of the day. There are numerous anonymous illustrators, but those who I can identify include: Maybel Lucie Atwell (English illustrator 1879 - 1964), Helen Gracie Culverwell Marsh Lambert (English illustrator 1888-1981), Eric Schulz (German illustrator), Ernst Kutzer (German illustrator), Jenny Nystrom (Swedish illustrator 1854-1946), Arthur Thiele (German illustrator 1860 - 193?), Hilda Miller (English illustrator 1876-1939) and Hans Kraus (German illustrator).

One hundred years ago, postcards were the most common and easiest way to communicate with loved ones not only across countries whilst on holidays, but across neighbourhoods on a daily basis with the minutiae of life on them. This is because unlike today where mail is delivered on a daily basis, there were several deliveries done a day. At the height of the postcard mania in 1903, London residents could have as many as twelve separate visits from the mailman. This means that people in the early Twentieth Century amassed vast collections of picture postcards which today are highly collectible depending upon their theme.

Taken on: June 22, 2020

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