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Greetings Card

1950s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rectangular folder card (landscape format). Front: colour printed illustration of a locket framing a country cottage scene among flowers, irregular cutaway edged with illustration of lace, gold embossed foil panel inset in the 'lid' of the locket. Inside: decorated with flowers and lettered with verse and greeting, handwritten greeting in pencil. Back: lettered PRINTED IN ENGLAND in blue, bottom right.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
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Brief description
Mother's Day card, Britain, 20th century.
Physical description
Rectangular folder card (landscape format). Front: colour printed illustration of a locket framing a country cottage scene among flowers, irregular cutaway edged with illustration of lace, gold embossed foil panel inset in the 'lid' of the locket. Inside: decorated with flowers and lettered with verse and greeting, handwritten greeting in pencil. Back: lettered PRINTED IN ENGLAND in blue, bottom right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.2cm
  • Width: 15.9cm
Content description
A gold locket framing a country cottage scene among flowers.
Credit line
Given by Carole Lack
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.579-2012

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Record createdSeptember 28, 2013
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