greeting cards
Summary
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".
Object Name
greeting cards
Date Created
1870-1890
Dimensions
b: 10.1cm x 6.4cm
d: 10.1cm x 6.2cm
c: 10.7cm x 7.3cm
a: 12.8cm x 8.2cm
accession number
1954.1135/4
Collection Group
Place of creation
England
Medium