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The card was designed by Mab (Mabel) Treeby somewhere around 1920, according to the National Library of Australia
National Library entry
A biography (rather short and incomplete) of her can be found here:
cartoonist and illustrator, was living in Victoria in June 1907 when she entered the national competition for a poster to advertise the Women’s Work Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne later that year. She won second prize for her design, runner-up to Helen Atkinson . The artist was apparently connected with George Treeby (’ G. Bron’ ), the chief cartoonist on Melbourne Punch 1896-98, and presumably also with Sid Treeby who, like her, contributed to the Bulletin in the early 1900s. Both Treebys contributed to the Sydney Bulletin .
Mab Treeby had cartoons of contemporary social life published from early in the century. One about two silly women at a seance (reproduced Heritage & included in SLNSW b/w exhibition cat. 242) was drawn when she was living in North Kensington, West Melbourne. She submitted it along with another well-drawn, stylish image of two fashionably-dressed women at the races (’“Has he lost his heart to her?”/ “His head I fancy”’). The pair were marked 'paid’ in 1909 (original ML). Both are in a detailed, naturalistic style, equally suitable for the story illustrations the Bulletin ran concurrently with its cartoons.
The majority of Mab Treeby’s known Bulletin cartoons, however, were drawn in the 1920s-early 1930s after she had moved to Sydney (as did George Treeby, according to Moore). They continued to feature smart society women making vapid wisecracks, eg 'Kitty: “I’d hate it to be said that I’m marrying Tony for his money.”/ Katty: “Oh, he’ll keep it quiet”’ 1922 (ill. Vane Lindsay); The Troubles of Matrimony , published 29 January 1930; and Clearing for Action (mistress hiding the crockery before giving the maid the sack), published 18 February 1931.
(https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mab-treeby/biography/)
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Thanks, but how did you make that connection?
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Google Lens - there I found a picture with a name. With that I started to search for more info about her.
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I've never used Google Lens, but I will now! Thank you for your help
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It works pretty well with photos you make with your mobile as well. I use it a lot when I am in a thrift store and see something out of the ordinary. Within a minute I often know what it is and what it is worth. You can even use it to automatically translate Japanese or Chinese.
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I found this today. Swallow & Ariell was an Australian biscuit and cake manufacturer. This is an unused split-back postcard with no further details. I've not been able to find anything online about it, but the style looks art-deco.
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The card was designed by Mab (Mabel) Treeby somewhere around 1920, according to the National Library of Australia
National Library entry
A biography (rather short and incomplete) of her can be found here:
cartoonist and illustrator, was living in Victoria in June 1907 when she entered the national competition for a poster to advertise the Women’s Work Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne later that year. She won second prize for her design, runner-up to Helen Atkinson . The artist was apparently connected with George Treeby (’ G. Bron’ ), the chief cartoonist on Melbourne Punch 1896-98, and presumably also with Sid Treeby who, like her, contributed to the Bulletin in the early 1900s. Both Treebys contributed to the Sydney Bulletin .
Mab Treeby had cartoons of contemporary social life published from early in the century. One about two silly women at a seance (reproduced Heritage & included in SLNSW b/w exhibition cat. 242) was drawn when she was living in North Kensington, West Melbourne. She submitted it along with another well-drawn, stylish image of two fashionably-dressed women at the races (’“Has he lost his heart to her?”/ “His head I fancy”’). The pair were marked 'paid’ in 1909 (original ML). Both are in a detailed, naturalistic style, equally suitable for the story illustrations the Bulletin ran concurrently with its cartoons.
The majority of Mab Treeby’s known Bulletin cartoons, however, were drawn in the 1920s-early 1930s after she had moved to Sydney (as did George Treeby, according to Moore). They continued to feature smart society women making vapid wisecracks, eg 'Kitty: “I’d hate it to be said that I’m marrying Tony for his money.”/ Katty: “Oh, he’ll keep it quiet”’ 1922 (ill. Vane Lindsay); The Troubles of Matrimony , published 29 January 1930; and Clearing for Action (mistress hiding the crockery before giving the maid the sack), published 18 February 1931.
(https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mab-treeby/biography/)
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Thanks, but how did you make that connection?
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Google Lens - there I found a picture with a name. With that I started to search for more info about her.
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I've never used Google Lens, but I will now! Thank you for your help
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It works pretty well with photos you make with your mobile as well. I use it a lot when I am in a thrift store and see something out of the ordinary. Within a minute I often know what it is and what it is worth. You can even use it to automatically translate Japanese or Chinese.
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