Category:Claxton postcard collection, in code

Sending postcards in code was fashionable in the Edwardian era. There are some examples contemporary with the Claxton coded postcards here, but those examples are less sophisticated than the Claxtons' code, which was privately developed by them. As of December 2020 all the coded cards, dated from 1904 and 1905 (48 found so far), are now decrypted, and re-checked. The rest will be uploaded in due course.

It should be said that the code conceals no personal secrets, and nothing obvious that might have been reprehensible in the Edwardian era (although one may read between the lines occasionally). It is mostly the usual postcard subject matter: work, places they visited, weather etc. The motive for the code appears to have been enjoyment of the code itself.

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Claxton encoded postcard collection, 1904‎ (6 C)
Claxton encoded postcard collection, 1905‎ (4 C)

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Helen Pettys postcards decrypted page (1).jpg 2,550 × 3,510; 984 KB
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Ted and Helen Claxton's code.pdf 1,239 × 1,754; 63 KB
Ted and Helen Claxtons code - scan.jpg 2,550 × 3,510; 328 KB

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