Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
1980
Materials
Card, Ink
Measurements
98 x 138 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748782.4
Summary
Christmas greeting card-right hand opening white card. Front- reproduction of a painting showing several wooden boats on the sea. One of the boats is flying brown and white sails. The sea is calm but the sky is filled with grey clouds. On the left hand side inside in black ink CAPELLE, Jan van de (1623/25-1679) A small vessel in light airs(865) The trade mark "help cards IN AID OF THE JOINT CHARITIES" On the right hand side With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year Text in blue ink from Jean, Dick & Andrew Hassett. Rear white card ALL PROFITS TO :- Action for the Crippled Child Army Benevolent Fund Asthma Research Council British Heart Foundation British Polio fellowship Central Council for the Disabled Children's Research Fund Church of England Children's Society Docklands Settlements Dr. Barnado's Housing the Homeless Central Fund John Groom's Crippleage Lepra Lord Mayor Treolar Trust Mental Health Trust Multiple Sclerosis Society National Children's Home National Society for Cancer Relief N.S.P.C.C Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind Royal National institute for the Deaf Royal national Life-boat Institution Shaftesbury Homes & "Arethusa" The Leprosy Mission The St. John Ambulance and the St. John ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem The Samaritans Incorporated The Shaftesbury society The Sue Ryder Foundation Published for Help Cards by the Trustees of the National Gallery Printed in England by Henry Stone & Son (Printers) Ltd., Banbury, Oxon. OM153