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Happy Christmas!
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greetings card
Europe: United Kingdom
c.1890s
card
overall: 90 mm x 120 mm

Christmas greetings card bearing a hand-drawn and coloured illustration of a pair of folding pince-nez with oval eyes and suspension cord, the cord extending to form the Christmas greeting inscription and the eye rims each containing a coloured portrait, respectively of a lady wearing a round-brimmed hat and a gentleman wearing a (12th?) Lancers' pillbox cap and a monocle.


2017.854

Gift of Mr John Dixon Salt FCOptom, 2017



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