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Forty four assorted greetings cards, including birthday, Christmas, New Year and Easter cards.
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BIRTHDAY CARDS: a) Turquoise, rectangular, with gilt inscription and hand painted lilies. 11.4 x 7.5cm; b) Rectangular card, with embossed flowers and crimped edges. Gilt greeting and verse; c) Semi-circular card, crimped edges and cut scrap bells, ferns, lace. Gilt greeting; d) Rectangular, with crimped edge. Decorated with pansies. Damaged - back missing.
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS: e) Card decorated with pressed 'flowers from Bethleham'. Quotations on inner page held in place by cord. Maker: Hills & Co Ltd; f) Card decorated with Art Nouveau design in relief, with ivy leaves surrounding gilt inscription. Inside; verse and print of house. 10 x 8cm; g) Floral decorations and verse. Tied with green cord. 7.4 x 9.8cm; h) Pansy and snowdrop decoration with verses. Pages sewn together with pink ribbon. Maker:Davidson Bros. 11 x 7.3cm; i) Roses and horseshoe decoration and verse. Tied with a pink cord. 7 x 9.7cm; j) Scene of seaside villa, mistletoe. Green cord tie. 11 x 8.7cm; k) Purple banner and gilt inscription, tied with lilac cord. 8.5 x 8.8cm; l) Embossed, with pansies and greeting. Pink cord. 7.5 x 10cm; m) REMEMBRANCE in red, black and white. Brown cord. 10.2 x 8cm; n) Landscape with gilt inscription. Verses. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 9 x 12.3cm; o) Floral deisgn, with verses. Blue ribbon. Maker: Davidson Bros. 11 x 7.3cm; p) Seascape. FOR AULD LANG SYNE. Pink cord. 9 x 13.5cm; q) Gilt design; WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS hung on a branch, a bee, and mistletoe. Watercolour print of church. 11.5 x 15cm; r) Folded top and base. Floral design and glittered greeting. Crimped edges. 11.5 x 9cm; s) Folded top and base. Floral design and glittered remembrance. Cutwork top. 11.5 x 8cm; t) Folded top and base. Cutwork base. Floral design, irregular edging and gilt greeting. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 11.6 x 8.7cm; u) Embossed floral decoration on folded base. Top missing. Inner inscription and printed address of sender. Dated 1896. 9 x 13.4cm; v) Calender card decorated with a sprig of primroses and greeting. Crimped edge. 11.7 x 8.6cm; w) Calender card with house in landscape, gilt flowers. 11 x 14cm; x) Violets and ivy design, embossed. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons; 10 x 16.2cm; y) Forget-me-nots, embossed, same series as x); z) Irregular floral design, crimped edges. Inner gilt inscription. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 9 x 16.5cm; aa) Narcissus design and pierced work card. Inner gilt inscription. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 11 x 7.4cm; bb) Forget-me-nots in baskets, embossed. 8 x 10.2cm; cc) Floral design, embossed. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 7.6 x 12.5cm; dd) Violets and almond blossom with gilt outlines. 11.4 x 8.3cm; ee) Lilies of the valley, embossed, with decorative border. 13 x 7.4cm; ff) Potted aspidistra and border pattern, embossed. Crimped edges. 12.7 x 7.4cm; gg) Bordered landscape with a medallion and greeting, embossed. 13 x 9cm; hh) Basket of forget-me-nots with border, glittered and embossed. Crimped edges. 11.8 x 9cm.
EASTER CARDS: ii) White floral decoration and greetings on green card with glittered cross. 12 x 8.8cm; jj) Glittered lattice cross with landscape and lilies. Mounted. 16.8 x 9.5cm; kk) Inscription HE IS RISEN in glitter on violets across cut out cross. 13.2 x 9.4cm; ll) Singe leaf card with serrated edging. Decorated and embossed with flowers and a cross. 12 x 8.8cm; mm) Card decorated with silver cross, greeting and lilies. 8.2 x 9.6cm; nn) Inscribed A PEACEFUL & HAPPY EASTER, floral borders. Cutwork edges. Maker: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 13.5 x 6.2cm. DESCRIPTIONS CONTINUED IN NOTES.
Technique: printed
Technique: embossing
Technique: hand-painting
Technique: cut work
Material: paper
Material: card
Material: cord
Material: ribbon
forty four assorted greeting cards by Davidson Bros, Raphael Tuck and sons Ltd, Hills & Co Ltd, W G Wheeler & Co, c.1890, (1957.445). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.11941 | Go to resource |
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