Greetings Card

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Rectangular folder card (landscape format) decorated with blue ribbon. Front: colour printed illustration of a baby with a ruffled pillow, a teddy bear, toadstools and flowers, embossed and embellished with silver, lettered in silver with the greeting "Congratulations! / and WELCOME / to BABY". Inside: line illustration of a water lily printed in blue, lettered "The / REGENT / Series" and with verse and greeting in blue, signed in black ink.

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Categories	Greeting Cards Ephemera
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	Letterpress and embossing on card, letterpress on paper, and ribbon. Printing Ink Card Printing
Brief description	New baby card, British, 20th century.
Physical description	Rectangular folder card (landscape format) decorated with blue ribbon. Front: colour printed illustration of a baby with a ruffled pillow, a teddy bear, toadstools and flowers, embossed and embellished with silver, lettered in silver with the greeting "Congratulations! / and WELCOME / to BABY". Inside: line illustration of a water lily printed in blue, lettered "The / REGENT / Series" and with verse and greeting in blue, signed in black ink.
Dimensions	Height: 10.2cm Width: 13.2cm
Content description	A baby with a ruffled pillow, a teddy bear, toadstools and flowers.
Credit line	Given by Jenny Tuck
Subjects depicted	Babies Flowers Pillows Teddy Bears
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.467-2011

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Record created	August 23, 2011
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1240338/greetings-card-unknown/

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