Christmas card box
Category
Ephemera
Date
1936
Materials
Card
Measurements
148 x 187 x 25 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748648.1
Summary
Christmas card box lid, to go with base (record 748648.2), originally contained fifteen Christmas cards (records 748565 - 748583). The box lid has a printed white paper cover, which has become soiled dover time, glued over a cream cardboard inner. On the left side is printed; 'Christmas Greeting Cards 9 Choice Cards with Envelopes' and to the right a printed black line border with ivy embellishments to top left corner bottom right edge and top right edge. Glued into the border is a colour picture of a gentleman with three 'hunting' dogs with red waist coat and brown over coat and matching top hat, in the background is a green coach being pulled by two horses one of which is ridden by a blue coated rider. on the picture are printed the word; 'Good Luck go with you all the way Hearty Greetings'. In the bottom left corner is 'SHARPE'S CLASIC 666', which is repeated on the front edge and right edge. Handwritten in the top left corner in black ink; 'Cards Xmas 1936.'.