Card
Cassell and Company Limited.
Category
Toys
Date
1923
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 45 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937206.7
Summary
One of a complete set of Cassell's Boys' and Girls' Picture Newspaper (every Thursday) "Butterflies and Moths" series cards, twelve in all, including the Citizen Blue Butterfly (no. 5) and the Jersey Tiger Moth (no. 8). The wings have been cut out in order to be bent upwards as though a real butterfly flying over the landscape in the picture. Produced 1923.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Makers and roles
Cassell and Company Limited. , manufacturer