Christmas Card
1885-1900 (made)
Christmas card, of portrait proportions, in a sliding pop-up format: the
card front is ice green, with gilt ornamentation, and shows a pyramid of
six little girls wearing similar fawn party dresses with blue sashes and
slippers and black stockings, and each holding a blue fan. When the
chequered sliding tab at the base of the card is moved to the middle, it
pulls the pyramid of girls upright, revealing a verse:
"With CHRISTMAS Greetings.
Hide not your beauty with the flirting fan,
But win allegiance to your smiling face;
Be first among the many, if you can,
Queen of them all in comeliness and grace".
card front is ice green, with gilt ornamentation, and shows a pyramid of
six little girls wearing similar fawn party dresses with blue sashes and
slippers and black stockings, and each holding a blue fan. When the
chequered sliding tab at the base of the card is moved to the middle, it
pulls the pyramid of girls upright, revealing a verse:
"With CHRISTMAS Greetings.
Hide not your beauty with the flirting fan,
But win allegiance to your smiling face;
Be first among the many, if you can,
Queen of them all in comeliness and grace".
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Colour-printed card |
| Brief description | Christmas card; Anglo-German, 1885-1900 |
| Physical description | Christmas card, of portrait proportions, in a sliding pop-up format: the card front is ice green, with gilt ornamentation, and shows a pyramid of six little girls wearing similar fawn party dresses with blue sashes and slippers and black stockings, and each holding a blue fan. When the chequered sliding tab at the base of the card is moved to the middle, it pulls the pyramid of girls upright, revealing a verse: "With CHRISTMAS Greetings. Hide not your beauty with the flirting fan, But win allegiance to your smiling face; Be first among the many, if you can, Queen of them all in comeliness and grace". |
| Dimensions | Height: 10.4 cm (folded) Width 2: 6.5 cm Other: Height when erect: 7.6 cm |
| Marks and inscriptions | The card is signed "Amy with love from George & Maudie"
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| Credit line | Given by Eileen A. Brock |
| Object history | References: Given to the donor's mother, neé Amy Piercey (b.1882) |
| Production | English design,printed Germany |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.461-1993 |
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| Record created | April 19, 2000 |
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