Greetings Card
1940-1960 (made)
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Irregular shaped folder card decorated with pale blue ribbon (partially faded to pink). Front: colour printed illustration of a baby in a cradle, lettered with greeting "To You and Your Dear Baby". Inside: colour printed illustration of a baby's head in profile within a heart-shaped frame decorated with a blue ribbon and flowers, lettered with verse, handwritten greeting in black ink. Back: lettered A. M. DAVIS & CO. / QUALITY CARDS / BRITISH MANUFACTURE.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Folded and die-cut paper with lithography and ribbon |
| Brief description | New baby card card, British, 20th century. |
| Physical description | Irregular shaped folder card decorated with pale blue ribbon (partially faded to pink). Front: colour printed illustration of a baby in a cradle, lettered with greeting "To You and Your Dear Baby". Inside: colour printed illustration of a baby's head in profile within a heart-shaped frame decorated with a blue ribbon and flowers, lettered with verse, handwritten greeting in black ink. Back: lettered A. M. DAVIS & CO. / QUALITY CARDS / BRITISH MANUFACTURE. |
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| Content description | A baby in a cradle. |
| Credit line | Given by Jenny Tuck |
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| Accession number | E.466-2011 |
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| Record created | August 23, 2011 |
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