New year card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
134 mm (width); 204 mm (height)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668169
Summary
A single folded New Year card illustrated with a coloured picture of a Victorian family skating on a frozen pond or river. There is a border of gold-coloured ribbons and sprigs of holly, with two robins in the bottom left-hand corner and 'Happy New Year' in shiny red ink at the top.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside the card: 'Gertie/ From/ Beti, Peter (and) Simon/ with Love'