Greetings Card

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Rectangular folder card (landscape format). Front: colour printed illustration of a black cat forging lucky horseshoes within a decorative border, lettered within the design GOOD LUCK / TO-DAY / On your / BIRTHDAY. Inside: colour printed illustration of two black kittens swinging on a large lucky horseshoe, letttered with verse printed in blue, red and black, within a decorative border. Back: inscribed with hadwritten greeting in pencil (top left corner), lettered in black PRINTED IN ENGLAND (bottom right corner).

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Categories	Greeting Cards Ephemera
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	Lithography on paper Printing Ink Card Printing
Brief description	Birthday card, Britain, 20th century.
Physical description	Rectangular folder card (landscape format). Front: colour printed illustration of a black cat forging lucky horseshoes within a decorative border, lettered within the design GOOD LUCK / TO-DAY / On your / BIRTHDAY. Inside: colour printed illustration of two black kittens swinging on a large lucky horseshoe, letttered with verse printed in blue, red and black, within a decorative border. Back: inscribed with hadwritten greeting in pencil (top left corner), lettered in black PRINTED IN ENGLAND (bottom right corner).
Dimensions	Height: 11.8cm Width: 15.9cm
Content description	Black cats and lucky horseshoes
Credit line	Given by Janet Mayer
Subjects depicted	Cats Horseshoes
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.588-2012

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Record created	September 28, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1273264/greetings-card-unknown/

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