“This is probably going to get serious”. 1904 postcard. Private Collection.
I would call this series How to Discreetly Show Interest in a Gentleman on the Omnibus.
The cute series starts out quite innocently…and ends with the sure promise of a second meeting. I am missing #5 of the 6 postcards though. I wish I had it! But the story is quite simple, really, and the person who sent these postcards could not resist putting words into the gentleman’s head!
So I added what she’s thinking before the translated comments.
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- Oh no, I have to sit next to a stranger…/ What indifference and timidity, don’t you think?
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- Hm…/ Her look!
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- Well, look at this, could he take more space looking for his handkerchief? / What cute little face she has, hm?
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- “Would you like mine?” /Hm…a nice smile!
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- “And this, take this too.” / This is probably going to get serious.
Both models were sitting on chairs, with the design of the omnibus line added later. The third has a misspelling too! But the line did exist, and if you’re curious to see what omnibus these two would have been on, here’s an image of the Madeleine-Bastille line omnibus of the era:
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Bowlers And High Collars 
March 14th, 2016 at 1:23 pm
A really lovely set of cards, but I’m usually put off from buying cards with the stamp on the front, I wanted to buy a Gabrielle Ray cards a opulent of months ago and the seller wanted something like $20 with writing all over the image 😡
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March 14th, 2016 at 4:17 pm
Heh, I get what you’re saying. If I see this series without the stamps I’d be tempted to get it again.
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March 15th, 2016 at 1:16 am
Superpower series. I love your added comments. Well spotted on the spelling error on the third card. I wonder how that happened. One would’ve thought it was the same film dropped over each image.
Re the comment above, I actually love the postcards that have the postage stamps and/or writing on the front, but not for $20.00!
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March 15th, 2016 at 1:17 am
Also love that you found an image of the omnibus. Horse drawn no less! Great post. I really enjoyed it, Caroline.
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March 15th, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Thank you Kate, I imagine it must have been entertaining to ride so high and see the hustling and bustling below.
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March 15th, 2016 at 1:18 am
Can’t see my first comment. I hope you can. This is the third, can see the second. Sometimes WP is really annoying.
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March 15th, 2016 at 3:55 pm
It’s not WP but my setting, sorry! I have to manually approve comments.
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