Folding envelope in blue card to hold photocards from Jersey.
Category
Photographs
Date
1935 - 1940
Materials
Card
Measurements
Folded 75 x 95 x 5 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520762.1
Summary
A folding envelope packet made of light blue, faded card. When folded the packet has a front aperture to reveal the contents. At the back the two sides fold in and there is tab on the top leaf which can be tucked into a slot on the botton leaf forming an envelope. Markings;- On the recto printed in black ink across the top "12 REAL PHOTO SNAPSHOTS" down the left side "For your Album", down the right side "For your friends" across the bottom "JERSEY - Packet B. The aperture is outlined with a boarder of thick black ink. An outer border of a chain style pattern printed in black ink. On the verso on the top leaf printed in black ink is space to write an address To M ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ on the bottom leaf printed in black is space to write From ..............................................
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986