Christmas card box
Category
Ephemera
Date
Dec 1935
Materials
Card, Paper, Ink, Glue
Measurements
132 x 211 x 25 mm
Collection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749558.1.1
Summary
Christmas greeting card box lid. The box lid is covered with cream paper printed with a picture on the left hand half and text on the right hand half. The picture is of a lady in Georgian style clothes being helped out of a sedan chair by a bowing gentleman. to the left of the chair stands a man holding one of the poles to lift the sedan chair. Another man's head is visible on the right, peering round the edge of the chair In the background is the outline of a castle. Below the picture are the words Greetings with BEST WISHES. On the right hand half of the lid are the words- Christmas GREETING Cards 10 Choice cards with Envelopes SHARPE'S CLASSIC 800. SHARPE'S CLASSIC 800 is also printed on the edge of the box.