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Bamforth Comic Postcard, Ventriloquist Act, Irish Joke Series

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Published by Bamforth and Co., Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, this printed color comic postcard belongs to the publisher's "Comic" Series and carries catalog number 229. The illustration depicts a ventriloquist named Fred seated on a stool on a lit stage, his dummy Georgie perched on his knee, as an irate audience member confronts the act from below. A playbill at right identifies the performers as "Act 2, Fred the Ventriloquist with Georgie."

Fred wears a pale blue suit with a black bow tie and ruffled shirt, while Georgie is dressed in a red and yellow striped sweater, pink trousers, and a straw boater hat. The confrontational audience member at lower right is rendered in a red coat and green hat, pointing an accusing finger toward the stage as other cartoon audience members look on from the foreground.

The joke printed across the top references Irish stereotype humor, with the punchline directed at the dummy rather than the ventriloquist, a classic misdirection gag common to British seaside comic postcard traditions that Bamforth popularized throughout the mid-twentieth century.

The reverse bears a 3.5p Queen Elizabeth II stamp postmarked 1974, addressed to Mr. John Deeley, c/o He Would And Co., 19 Rosedene Drive, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham 20, with a handwritten message signed by Mark.

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