Christmas Card
1885-1900 (made)
Christmas card, of landscape proportions, with a top centrefold and cut-out scalloped pie-crust edges. The front shows a design of cherubs' heads among a cut-out framework decorated with red and cream roses, birds, gilded trellis-work, and the words "BEST Wishes" in copper with a silver glitter finish. The words inside read: "With kind greetings and best wishes for a happy Christmas".
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Colour-printed card |
| Brief description | Christmas card; Anglo-German, 1885-1900 |
| Physical description | Christmas card, of landscape proportions, with a top centrefold and cut-out scalloped pie-crust edges. The front shows a design of cherubs' heads among a cut-out framework decorated with red and cream roses, birds, gilded trellis-work, and the words "BEST Wishes" in copper with a silver glitter finish. The words inside read: "With kind greetings and best wishes for a happy Christmas". |
| Dimensions | Height: 7.5 cm Width 2: 13.9 cm |
| Marks and inscriptions | RTS ARTIST. SER. TRADE MARK BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK. DESIGNED AT THE STUDIOS IN ENGLAND AND PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS IN GERMANY. COPYRIGHT.
The card is signed "To Amy from Nellie" |
| Credit line | Given by Eileen A. Brock |
| Object history | References: Given to the donor's mother, neé Amy Piercey (b.1882) |
| Production | Made by: RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS English design,printed Germany |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.456-1993 |
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| Record created | April 19, 2000 |
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