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Description: | Four greeting cards. a) Card edged with pale blue silk fringe, one side decorated with an embossed cut scrap picture of doves feeding which folds back to reveal the name Mary A Wyatt. b) Perfume sachet Valentine made of embossed paper, coloured green and gilt with a cental oval showing children at play. c) Birthday card made of thick cardboard, folded with four chromolithographed pictures of children in baskets in the style of Kate Greenaway. With gilt messages. d) Greetings sachet made of embossed paper in pink and gilt. A cut paper rose conceals a printed poem entitled "Sweet Blessings".
Technique: embossing
Technique: chromolithography
Material: card
Material: silk
Material: paper
greeting cards made in England, United Kingdom, Europe, 1870-1890, (1954.1135/4). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.37162 | Go to resource |
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