help with uniform (WWI?)

[millymcb]

I looks like a template is used then the soldier's photo is turned into a postcard:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/United-to-Conquer-WWI-First-World-War-Postcard-/391461498498

Same template...different soldier.

As a postcard collector...I have seen many variations of these.

Carol

Happy to be proved wrong Ruskie

Milly

[ScouseBoy]

The cutout does look odd, but I think it has been done commercially. The oval shape would be very difficult to cut out with a pair of household scissors - this looks nice and even. Presumably the bits around the plane would have been less detailed to make them stronger when cut out? 

     It is quite possible that the post cards  were manufactured by    women and girls at home.     Embroidered Post Cards were produced in France and Belguim  during WW1    and sold to British and Empire troops.     I still have some of those sent by my grandfather  to my mother.

[Treetotal]

Nah!!!!...commercial enterprise.
Carol

[ScouseBoy]

I wonder if the Post card was manufactured   by   "Ward, Lock  and Co.Ltd"

[jess5athome]

I wonder if the Post card was manufactured   by   "Ward, Lock  and Co.Ltd"

Were they postcard manufacturers? I thought they were a book publishing company 

Frank.

[Treetotal]

So did I Frank....not that it is relevant anyway 
Carol

[John915]

Good evening,

The soldier in Carol's link is the Lincolnshires, faint possibility of them both being the same regt and time of photo taking.

Carol's link also has what looks like a watermark on the rear but not sure.

John915

[Treetotal]

Good evening John....If you turn it sideways you can see the outline of the soldier....I can't see a watermark though.
Carol

[John915]

Good evening Carol,

Yes, I can see that now, I just saw the shape and thought watermark. So the photo is a postcard and has the front stuck over it.

John915