4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST
Greetings Cards
Four 19th century paper-lace cards, with ink MSS messages. One bears an engineered-paper, pull-tab novelty of a lady reading overlooked by a cherub bearing a torch overpainted on a concertina-fold cage enclosing a picture of a church and graveyard. The inscription reads "Hail me safe to home", it is perhaps to be hoped that the church suggests a marriage (or the Church as home) but it is possible the suggestion is the lady is a ghost, in the manner of ghost stories of the time. The other three feature an onlaid illustration of a gentleman walking his dog; a central dangling ?cherub (sadly now detached); and a central onlaid medallion depicting John the Baptist baptising Christ, likely a Baptism or Confirmation gift. [4]
Sold for £40
Estimated at £60 - £80
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