Mourning card
Category
Ephemera
Date
1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
76 mm (width); 115 mm (length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662720
Summary
A black-edged rectangular mourning card which has an embossed and cut-out main piece, representing a stone memorial surrounded by foliage and a weeping figure on the right. The card reads as follows; “In Loving Memory of Rose Rebbeer who died 13th July, 1888. Interred at [North Elms] Cemetery Aged 41 yrs the 16th day of July, 1888”, and ends with a plot number and address.