- Museum number
- 1947,1011.3.1-112
- Description
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Ring-binder album containing 112 Christmas and New Year cards given to Queen Mary [QM] bound in blue leather and leatherette, with gold tooling stamped in gold inside the spine: ‘The “Oriel” Binder / Rd. No. 93024 / Marcus Ward & Co. Ld.’, paper label on spine inscr. ‘1872 to 1893’. Pasted on the inside of front board of the album, a note in QM's hand: ‘Christmas & New Year Cards given to Queen Mary between the years 1872 to 1893.
Cards stuck recto and verso on the (unnumbered) pages; the paper is brittle but the cards themselves are generally well preserved. A number are glued down; a few are held in place with glued textile strips; some fragile cards are cased in envelopes. Inscriptions in purple pencil on the album page in QM’s mature hand identify a number of the correspondents; the year noted in ink on some album pages dates to the time of compilation. It is likely the purple notes were made in 1947, when QM lent 18 of the albums to the collector George Buday: see his acknowledgement of the Queen’s ‘most helpful co-operation … identifying and noting the senders of the cards in her collection’ (Buday 1954, Preface, p.v).
The cards are addressed to Princess May [QM] unless stated otherwise. Interspersed throughout the album, a number of cards addressed to Prince George [KGV] as a child and before his marriage in 1893.
The images are mainly commercially-produced greetings cards for Christmas, New Year and Valentine’s day, mostly English with a proportion made in America, Germany, Italy and France. The majority consists of embossed chromolithographs with added die-cuts or ‘scraps’, lace-paper, German foil trims (‘Dresdens’); a number of ‘animated’ cards also, with complex threaded, pop-up and push-pull tab designs. The subjects are predominantly naturalistic: children, posies, birds and animals; many spring or summer scenes with nesting birds, blossom, butterflies, etc. The seasonal messages (‘sentiments’) range from the pious and affective to the humorous.
NB: In this album the pencil numbering of cards diverges from BM stamped numbers at no.89: observe stamped numbers only.
No. 1: Christmas card, hawthorn blossom framing eight-line sentiment by Francis Davis: ‘Each season has … as a Christian ought to do’; chromolithograph panel card lettered lower left: ‘Ent. Sta. Hall’, and lower right: ‘Marcus Ward & Co.’ (publisher). Sender unknown; dated 1872 on album page. Ref. Buday 1954 p.172, pl. 162. (Flowering hawthorn also known as May-blossom.)
No. 2: Animated panel card, embossed, with gilt lace-paper border framing oval scene of two children playing with hoops under greetings ‘Aufrichtigen Glückwunsch’ [‘sincere congratulations’]; the children are hidden behind paper scrap in form of bouquet. Sender unknown; dated 1874 on album page. Ref. Buday 1954 p.172, pl. 162.
No. 3: Animated New Year card, oval bouquet composed of layers of embossed card scraps and pull-out bird with extendable wings, separate parts connected with thread; five-line sentiment: ‘May the coming … happiness.’. Sender unknown; dated 1875 on album page. Ref. Buday 1954 p.172, pl. 162, ‘one of the earliest of this type… preserved in perfect working order’; still working order March 2018. Fragile.
No. 4: Animated card under plain cover panel lettered: ‘Ich gratulire.’ [‘I congratulate you’]; cover panel lowers to reveal four rows of embossed, chromolithograph scraps, riverside and town scenes. Publisher unknown; sender unknown; inscr. ‘1875’ on album page. Ref. Buday 1954 p.172, pl. 162. Fragile.
No. 5: Christmas card reproducing song sheet ‘Going to the party’, chromolithograph decorated with drawing by Kate Greenaway, frieze of children in snow; song continued on reverse in monochrome. Lettered: ‘Drawn by … Kate Greenaway’; lettered on reverse: ‘Words by G.P. Meade’, ‘Music by B. Hobson Carroll’. Card publ. Marcus Ward & Co.; sender unknown; undated.
No. 6: ‘Purse’ card made of embossed turquoise and gold card, enclosing: loose card coin (20Fr., Napoleon III, 1864), and paper motto, four lines (‘You’ve ope’d … to find a (s)cent.’); purse encl. in embossed paper envelope bearing traces of sealing wax, envelope inscr.: ‘For my dear little May / 1874’. From Princess Mary Adelaide to Princess May, 1874. Not obviously a Christmas card. For another purse card see No. 78 below. Ref. Buday 1954 p.171, pl.160.
No. 7: New Year card, chromolithograph panel card with embossed, scalloped border; two children by stile in meadow, lettered below ‘A happy new year be before thee’. Sender unknown; inscr. ‘1875’ on album page.
No. 8: Sliver of ?balsa wood, plant and bee painted in red gold and black inks in oriental style, inscr. in ink on reverse: ‘Paris / souvenir de / l’exposition de / 1878’; blue silken cord and tassel. Not a Christmas card.
No. 9: New Year card, chromolithograph panel card picturing roses; four-line sentiment by F. Langbridge: ‘Roses shall the emblem … and pure and bright.’; inscr. in ink on reverse, Princess May’s hand: ‘From Mama /1880’.
No. 10: New Year card, profile head of girl in mob cap; chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘New friends and old be with thee this New Year!’. Lettered on reverse: ‘De La Rue & Co. / Series no.224’ (publisher). Inscr. and dated in ink on reverse: ‘To darling Mary with every good wish for the New year from her devoted cousin VRI / Jan. 1 1880’ (a card from Queen Victoria to Princess Mary Duchess of Teck).
No. 11: Christmas and New Year panel card, stuck down, image of cherub parting corn stalks, brightly coloured flowers at left of (anon) eight-line sentiment: ‘May your Christmas … ever present, to cheer.’ Publisher and sender unknown; inscr. ‘1880’ on album page.
No. 12: New Year panel card designed and signed by Helga von Cramm; chromolithograph, lakeside scene with waterlilies, castle and mountains; lettered with three-line sentiment by ‘F.R.H.’ (Frances Ridley Havergal): ‘Lucerne / Blessing and blest … the rest of Eternity!’. Publisher and sender unknown; inscr. ‘1880’ on album page. Stuck down.
No. 13: Christmas card comprising four botanical images (roses, ferns, etc.) designed by Blanche Story, each signed ‘BS’; publ. as chromolithographs by Hildesheimer and Faulkner, lettered ‘H. & F.’ bottom left, and featuring sentiments by F.E. Weatherly: ‘Christmas / Not with vain regretful tears …. Keep we thus the festival!’ (eight lines), and ‘O what were skies … the love of friends?’ (three lines). One image inscr.: ‘For dear little May / from her aff. [?....] / and loving sister [?]Lily / 24 Dec. 80.’, the sender identified by QM on album page as ‘Pss Frederica of Hanover’. The four images mounted on two pieces of card and hinged with linen (perished 2018) to form folder card; the card slotted under a textile strip on the album page for ease of removal.
No. 14: ?Greetings card; chromolithograph panel card, not lettered, inscribed or dated; moonlit scene, child in arms of guardian angel high above sleeping town. Stuck down, sender unknown. Possibly publ. W. Hagelsberg, Berlin, see Buday 1954 p.84.
Nos. 15: ‘Voiced’ New Year trick card featuring group of ducks and magpie; emits squawk when pressure applied to concealed whistle at back. Recto lettered lower left: ‘Goodall’ and centre: ‘A Happy New Year’; verso lettered: ‘“Voiced” Christmas and New Year’s cards. / C. Goodall & Son, London. / Patent, 1877’; inscr. in ink on reverse, Princess May’s child hand: ‘From dear / Mama 1880’. Preserved in envelope. Repr. Buday 1954, plate 26.
No. 16: ‘Voiced’ New Year trick card, image of robin on desk with inkstand and books; chromolithograph, embossed card, chirping sound when pressure applied to concealed whistle at back. Recto lettered lower left: ‘Goodall’ and within image ‘Wishing you a happy new year’; verso lettered: ‘“Voiced” Christmas and New Year’s cards. / C. Goodall & Son, London. / Patent, 1877’; inscr. in ink on reverse, Duchess of Teck’s hand: ‘From your / loving Mama / Jany. 1st 1879’. Preserved in envelope. Repr. Buday 1954, plate 26.
No. 17: ?Birthday card, print of pansies and primroses, lettered at bottom: ‘Harding, 157, Piccadilly, W.’, inscr. in gold relief: ‘Many happy returns of the Day’. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown, undated.
No. 18: 1882 ‘Calendar of the Seasons’: card booklet, eight pages, featuring images of four children in seasonal C.18 dress by Kate Greenaway (‘K.G.’); including information for 1882 (bank holidays, postage, law sittings); chromolithograph publ. Marcus Ward & Co., London and Belfast. Sender unknown.
No. 19: Greetings card designed by unknown artist, flowering hawthorn (white and pink May); chromolithograph, with printed inscription: ‘Wishing you all the pleasures of the Season’; publisher’s name printed lower left: ‘Eyre & Spottiswoode.’, and lower right: ‘437’. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 20: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, New Zealand Paua (abalone) shell with purple pansies and sprigs of heather; chromolithograph, with printed inscription: ‘Wishing you a very happy Christmas’; publisher’s name printed lower left: ‘J.F.S. & Co.’ (Schipper & Co.), and lower right: ‘695’. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
Nos 21: New Year card designed by ‘TL’, a race, eight cherubs dressed as jockeys and mounted on flying bats, red setting sun at left; chromolithograph, with gold title at bottom: ‘We come to wish you all a bright New Year’. Publisher unknown; panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Connect with No.22.
No. 22: Christmas card designed by ‘TL’, five fur-wrapped infants in a boat dripping with icicles and ladened with toys, the boat inscr. ‘Santa Klaus’, moonlit scene: these frozen children reference Santa’s elfin helpers. Chromolithograph, with inscription on banner at bottom: ‘Wishing you a very merry Christmas’; publisher unknown; panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Connect with No.21.
No. 23: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, spring blossom and three blue-tits clustered around a stag beetle; chromolithograph, titled below: ‘With many Merry Christmas greetings!’; publisher unknown; panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 24: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, pink blossom, the branch, blossom and leaf edged in gold, a dusting of gold in the background; Japanese influence; chromolithograph panel card, titled below: ‘A Merry Christmas!’; publisher unknown; stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 25: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, cluster of irises and water-lilies at left, sun setting over water at right, the plants edged in gold, the sun entirely gold; Japanese influence; chromolithograph panel card titled: ‘Wishing / you a happy Christmas’; publisher unknown; stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 26: New Year card designed by unknown artist, robin trilling on wintry branch, lozenge-framed snow scene inscr. ‘A Happy New Year’, trellis background with holly and ivy. Chromolithograph panel card, publisher unknown; stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
NB: The album page displaying nos 23 to 26 is Japanese themed except for no.26, probably included because it fitted narrow space.
No. 27: New Year card designed for a child, unsigned; glossy central print, infant with rattle, mounted on card printed with border of toys on gold ground, lettered: ‘A Happy New Year / to my dear little friend’; ‘Ent. Sta. Hall.’ lower left, and ‘Marcus Ward & Co.’ lower right. Chromolithograph panel card; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. See No. 28 for variant central image.
No. 28: New Year card designed for a child, unsigned; glossy central image, infant with toy lamb, print mounted on card with border of toys on gold ground, lettered: ‘A Happy New Year / to my dear little friend’; ‘Ent. Sta. Hall.’ lower left, and ‘Marcus Ward & Co.’ lower right. Chromolithograph panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated. See No.27 for variant central image.
No. 29: Card formed of rectangular panel of white lace-paper, with a central oval decorated with chromolithograph scrap of two children (one in top hat) and flowers; inscr. in blue ink over scrap: ‘I say darling don’t we / look a happy couple’. Inscr. on mount, under the lace paper: ‘From’ (in pencil, ?Queen Mary’s hand), and ‘Miss Brand’ (inscr. in Princess May’s child hand). Handmade Valentine card, the fine blue ink inscription found on other C.19 Valentines. Undated.
No. 30: New Year card, pink roses in Oriental style vase next to album marked ‘80’ on spine; artist unknown. Chromolithograph panel card inscr.: ‘New Year’s wish: / Much love and happiness / to you!’; and lettered lower left: ‘Copyright 1881 by L. Prang & Co. Boston’ (Louis Prang & Co., Boston and Roxbury, Mass.); stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 31: Card, unseen, preserved within sealed envelope, the front of envelope a chromolithograph of summer flowers (poppies, cornflowers, daisies, oat stalks) with eight-line sentiment (‘A Christmas wish … and prayer’), the whole edged in silver. The back of the envelope inscr. in ink: ‘Princess May / from / “dear [?]Ivy”; undated. Designer, publisher and sentiment writer unknown.
No.32: Animated Christmas card, chromolithograph, pink hawthorn blossom (‘May’) framing eight-line sentiment (‘Christmas greeting / welcome glad Yule … on Christmas day!’), lettered lower right: ‘Marcus Ward & Co’.; designer and sentiment writer unknown; undated. The sentiment hidden behind half stuck down scrap of pretty child. Card trimmed on four sides.
No. 33: Japanese-style Christmas card, pot of pink blossom against blue screen, lettered below: ‘With the Season’s Greetings’; chromolithograph panel card, stuck down; designer and publisher unknown, sender unknown; undated. Same format as No.34.
No. 34: Aesthetic New Year card, blue pot of white pink blossom, peacock feathers at left, lettered below: ‘With Best Wishes for a Happy New Year’; chromolithograph panel card, stuck down; designer and publisher unknown, sender unknown; undated. Same format as No. 33.
No. 35: French religious card, summer flowers entwined around golden cross over quote from St Bernard: ‘Le monde…. pas les douceurs’; lettered lower left: ‘Aubry. Ed. Imp. Paris’ (publisher), and lower right: ‘Serie 268. No.2. Deposé’. Chromolithograph panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 36: Christmas card, heart-shaped scene, three sparrows on flowering branch outlined in gold, inscr. in mock Oriental letters: ‘Christmas Joys to You’; scene set against blue ground with gold painted water, bulrushes, etc.; artist unknown. Chromolithograph panel card lettered lower right: ‘Copyright 1880 by L. Prang & Co. Boston’ (Louis Prang & Co., Boston and Roxbury, Mass.); stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 37: Animated Christmas card, at first sight a realistic-looking cake studded with almonds and slices of angelica, viewed from above. Embossed chromolithograph card, inserts, scraps, thread, silken tapes. Lettered on reverse of Father Christmas insert: ‘O mögest von der Erde Gaben / du immen nur die schönsten haben’. Unknown publisher; sender unknown; undated. Fragile condition 2018.
The mechanism was tested by George Buday in the 1940s: one tape ‘when pulled, lifts up one side of the card, and on the reverse a jovial Father Christmas appears in his familiar red robes, with a large sack of presents on his back. When the tape is pulled still further, the upper part of the Father Christmas card comes forward, as though he was bending down to empty his sack, and on his back, which thus becomes a little flat platform, a series of small scraps, representing a Christmas tree, complete with angels and toys, a little Christ, a rocking horse, etc., stand up automatically. A little string in the back manipulates all these figures, just as another string helped Father Christmas to bend down.’ Buday 1954, p.179. In 2018 the mechanism no longer fully functioning. Fragile.
No. 38: Animated greetings card, composite scrap bouquet, seven concentric floral wreaths (rose buds, forget-me-nots, violets, daisies) on lace-paper base, topped with silver and gold foil butterfly (gold filigree on left wing missing) on central rose; card folds flat into envelope. To activate, pull tabs at either side of bouquet and the scraps rise to form domed posy topped with fluttering butterfly. Sentiments printed on base of tabs: ‘Konigin Rose .... nicht! / Die besten Wünsche’, and ‘Wie Strausschens bunte .... Dein Geschick! / Die besten Wünsche’,’. Signed ‘May.’ in ink on reverse. Publisher unknown; sender unknown; undated; fragile, preserved in envelope. Ref. Buday 1954, p. 174 (‘This, for me at any rate, unique card from Queen Mary’s collection’), repr. plates 167and 168.
No. 39: Christmas card designed by Emily Whymper, nest with five speckled eggs in rushes; chromolithograph signed ‘EW’, and inscribed diagonally, at right within the composition: ‘Water-wagtail’s Nest / & Forget-me-not’; printed inscription lower left: ‘May every Christmas joy be yours’; publisher unknown. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 40: Christmas card designed by W.J. Muckley, nest on the ground with five brown eggs, branches of pink dog rose and a blue butterfly; chromolithograph signed ‘W. Muckley’ bottom right, and publisher’s name Hildesheimer & Faulkner lettered at left; printed greeting beneath image: ‘With best wishes for a Happy Christmas’. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 41: Season’s greeting card, triptych, designed by unknown artist; closed card or cover scene, guests arriving at snowy Tudor mansion, lettered top and bottom: ‘Merry Christmas … good store, in plenty’; opened card, three scenes of Georgian merriment (piano playing, dancing, game of blind man’s buff), lettered top and bottom: ‘Old and young… this our New Year’s day’. Chromolithograph published S. Hildesheimer, 1880. Card stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Ref. Buday 1954, p. xviii, pls 145, 146.
No. 42: Valentine card designed by unknown artist, clematis winding around four-verse sentiment: ‘Five blue eggs in a nest … We’ll brave the worst together!’, in oval scene at left, the heads of girl and boy and two nesting birds. Chromolithograph panel card with a gold ground and edged with white paper trim; lettered bottom left: ‘Marcus Ward & Co.’, and bottom right: ‘Ent. Sta. Hall’; the card glued to its ‘envelope’ of folded patterned paper (may have contained scented tissue); sender unknown; undated.
No. 43: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, table set with Chinese-style teapot and dish, and blue and white vase with narcissi, inscr. on simulated window mount: ‘Wishing you a bright and happy Christmas’; chromolithograph panel card, publisher unknown; stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 44: New Year card, bust of young mariner looking to right, rigging and seagulls in background, lettered top: ‘Britannia’s pride’ and below: ‘Fair winds waft you through the year’; chromolithograph panel card, publisher unknown; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. The recipient was probably Prince George [KGV].
No. 45: Dance card, with red ribbon and disc bearing remnants of red sealing wax, titled: ‘Yourself & Your Partner’, inscr. in pencil: ‘22nd.85’[sic], and: ‘from Frank to May’; and inside a printed list of 20 dances headed: ‘The Dances. The Partnership.’
No. 46: Christmas card designed by Robert Finlay McIntyre, single file of cavalry advancing to right in snowy wasteland, watched by crow on bare tree, signed lower left: ‘RFMc’. Chromolithograph panel card, publisher’s name and greetings lettered in gold at the bottom: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Copyright / A bright and happy Christmas’; and lettered in blue further below: ‘The thin black line / Lancers’; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. The recipient was probably Prince George [KGV].
No. 47: Christmas card by unknown designer, large white flowers around sentiment printed on gold disc, rocky shoreline below. Chromolithograph panel card with five-line sentiment: ‘Be life a / stream of golden joy … alloy!’, lettered at left: ‘A joyous / Christmas / to you’, and lower right: ‘Copyright /D’. Card inscr. in ink on reverse: ‘My dear May / With my beast[sic] wishes / for a Merry Christmas and a happy / New Year / Believe me / Your affectionate / Hélène / Sheen House 1886’. Inscription in purple pencil on the card in Queen Mary’s mature hand identifies the sender as Hélène d’Orléans, princess of France.
No. 48: Bouquet of (May time) flowers, lily of the valley, roses and violets, signed with artist’s monogram lower left: ‘RB’. Unlettered chromolithograph panel card, publisher unknown, inscr. in ink on reverse: ‘May God [?]help you & the new Year / [?]flronce 1884 / May from Papa’. In May 1884, in Florence, the Duke of Teck suffered a stroke.
No. 49: New Year card in form of small jug ornamented with bust of grinning old woman [?Winter], and filled with pink dog roses. Chromolithograph cut out in shape of jug and flowers, lettered at base of jug: ‘A bright and happy Year to you.’; publisher unknown. The card is stuck down but information provided by inscriptions on the album page: ‘1886’ (Princess May’s hand), and ‘Duke of Teck’ (Queen Mary’s mature hand, purple pencil).
No. 50: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, girl seated in summer garden reading to small boy. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘Wishing you a bright and happy Christmas’, with publisher’s name lower left: ‘Hagelberg. / No.38 Copyright.’ [W. Hagelberg, Berlin]. Inscr. in ink on reverse: ‘For dearest May / wishing you a merry / Xmas & a happy New Year. From Louise. 1886’. Sender identified on album page, Queen Mary’s mature hand, purple pencil: ‘Pss Louise of Wales’.
No. 51: Christmas card designed by unknown artist, wintry tree in foreground with castle. Monochrome panel card by unknown publisher, lettered in gold: ‘A cheerful Christmas Greeting’. Sender unknown, card stuck down but dated on the album page in Princess May’s hand: ‘1889’.
No. 52: New Year card, designed by unknown artist, timber frame farmhouse in snow, cattle in foreground. Chromolithograph panel card, unknown publisher, lettered: ‘A glad New Year to you’. Card stuck down, sender unknown, dated on the album page in Princess May’s hand: ‘1889’.
No. 53: Trick Christmas card, sailing boat, jetty and buoy, composed of five pieces of cardboard and metal disc (pendulum), with embossed, gold and silver plated front page, lettered: ‘A jolly Christmas’; tab to activate boat broken, metal disc loose in envelope, Feb. 2018. Double leaf card, the back leaf printed with monochrome image of waterside scene; and ten-line sentiment ‘Christmas bells, how they ring … and good-will’ by E.E. Griffin; and inscr. with publisher’s name at bottom: ‘W. Hagelberg / Berlin’. Inscr. in ink by Queen Victoria: ‘From your / devoted Grandmama / VRI / Xmas 1890.’: the recipient almost certainly Prince George. Sender identified on envelope in QM’s mature hand, purple pencil. Fragile, stored in envelope. Ref. Buday 1954 p.170, repr. pl. 149.
No. 54: Booklet, the cover lettered: ‘Nancy Lee / by Fred. E. Weatherly’ in ‘rope’ lettering, and at lower left: ‘Castell Brothers / London. / Printed in Bavaria’, additional details on title page: ‘Castell Brothers / London. New York – E. & J.B. Young & Co’. Twelve-page booklet of Frederick Edward Weatherly’s lyrics of a popular song with eight chromolithographs by unknown artist; the pages laced together with ribbon. Inside cover, pen and ink dedication by Princess of Wales to her son Prince George: ‘For my darling Georgie boy / from old Mother dear / Xmas 1890’. Sender identified on envelope in QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 55: Booklet titled: ‘Lead kindly light’ (hymn, words by Henry Newman); six monochrome illustrations by unknown artist; ten pages laced together with ribbon. On the first page, pen and ink dedication by Princess of Wales to her son Prince George: ‘For my darling Georgie / from his old Mother dear / Sandringham Easter / April 1st 1888’. Unknown publisher. Sender identified in QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 56: Booklet titled ‘Come unto me’ (hymn, words by W.C Dix, 1867), with cover illustration of bust of Christ (also on wrapper); publication details on title page: ‘Castell Brothers / London / New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co. / Printed in Bavaria.’. Booklet of twelve-pages sewn with gold thread; eight chromolithographs by unknown artist. Inside cover, pen and ink dedication by Princess of Wales to her son Prince George: ‘For my darling Georgie / from his old / Mother-dear / Xmas 1890’. Sender identified in QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 57: Religious Christmas card designed by Alice Havers [Mrs Fred Morgan], signed lower right ‘AH’, Mary kneeling on straw holding Christ child, titled on window surround: ‘May all Christmas blessings be thine.’, and lettered below: ‘Hildesheimer & Faulkner. H. & F. No 94. S. Copyright’. Chromolithograph panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 58: Christmas card, two dragonflies and horseshoe wreath of mauve and blue pansies; embossed card with cut-out apertures and gold lettering: ‘Good Luck.’ / A happy Christmas to you.’ Chromolithograph panel card; publication details on reverse: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons. London, Paris, New York. / Designed at the London Studios and printed at the Fine Art Works in Saxony. / Copyright’; and Tuck’s printed logo of palette (inscr. ‘Artistic series’) and paint brushes resting against artist’s easel. Also on reverse of card, pen and ink inscr.: ‘With every good wish / for Christmas & New Year / & for many succeeding years / to dear Princess May from M.F.P.D. / 29th Decr. 1890’.
No. 59: Christmas card, spray of arum lilies and forget-me-nots; embossed card with cut-out apertures and gold lettering: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch’(‘congratulations’). Chromolithograph panel card inscribed in pen and ink on reverse: ‘For dear cousin May / with best wishes, Elly sends / the other card with her love. / Neustrelitz 1890. Adolphus Frederick’ [Adolphus Frederick, grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz].
On the back of this album page, a second card with same stamped accession no. BM 1947,1011.3 (59):
No. 59: New Year card designed by Lizzie Lawson, fair-haired child in roundel, profile to right, signed lower left ‘LL’. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘Wishing you a happy New Year’, and below: ‘Hildesheimer & Faulkner. H. & F. 155. Copyright.’; stuck down, presumably the card from Elly (Elisabeth Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) referred to above. Undated.
No. 60: Nocturnal shipping scene, moonlit and cloudy sky, signed by artist lower left (illegible). Reproduced on cream card, inscr. in pen and ink: ‘Georgi[sic] / A merry Xmass[sic] and happy new year / wishes old [?...]. 1890.’ Panel card, stuck down, no publication details. Indecipherable handwriting; see No.111 inscr. in same hand.
No. 61: Pictogram Christmas card lettered: ‘Wishing you a Merry Christmas / with / all the happiness and joy the [here picture of globe or ‘world’] can give you / throughout the coming year’; and lettered below: ‘H.H. & Co.’s “Unique” Series. Copyright.’ Inscr. in ink on reverse: ‘For dear Georgie / from his very / affectate. cousin / May / 1889-90.’ Panel card.
No. 62: Card with embossed images of two four-leaf clovers, a silver coin with arms of Savoy, and embossed gold lettering: ‘Sinceri / Auguri’ (‘sincere greetings’). Inscr. in ink: ‘For dearest Georgie / with best wishes / for 1890 / from aunt / Vicky’ [Victoria, princess royal, German empress, consort of Frederick III]. Card stuck down, no production details.
No. 63: Religious card, baby cradled in arms of winged angel. Chromolithograph panel card in form of a cross, blue ground with gold highlights; no publication details, card stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 64: New Year card designed by unknown artist (? A.F. Lydon), group of carol singers outside snowy moonlit mansion; inset, vignette of the Magi following star in east. Chromolithograph with silver highlights, lettered: ‘Heaven… every year!’, and below with name of publisher, ‘S. Hildesheimer & Co. / No.2022. Copyright I.’. Panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 65: New Year card signed ‘AFL’, probably A.F. Lydon, snowy moonlit waterside scene, inset, vignette of angels. Chromolithograph panel card with silver frosting, lettered: ‘The blessed… New Year’s day!’, and below with name of publisher: ‘S. Hildesheimer & Co. / No.250 Copyright I.’; stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 66: Photographic greetings card, black and white panoramic view of Florence framed in chromolithograph mount (flowering rose and almond blossom), cutaway and lettered: ‘Un saluto da Firenze’ (‘greetings from Florence’). Panel card, no publication details, stuck down; sender unknown; undated. [The Teck family in Florence Sept.1883 to May 1885.]
No. 67: Greetings card comprising four circular images: panorama of Florence labelled ‘Buone Feste’ (‘season’s greetings’ or ‘happy holidays’), and three paintings from Uffizi and Pitti Palace [Raphael, Madonna della seggiola; Botticelli, Madonna del Magnificat; Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait]. Photographic folder card, no publication details; sender unknown, undated. This card is not stuck down and is missing a BM accession stamp (but pencilled ‘67’ on album page).
No. 68: Greetings card comprising three images: two drawings of children in commedia dell’arte costumes by unknown artist, and on reverse a C.19 print of St. Peter’s, Rome, lettered: ‘Roma – Piazza di S. Pietro e Basilica Vaticana’. Photographic folder card, no publication details; sender unknown, undated. This card is not stuck down and has split in two; the adhesive strip (to hold loose cards) now partly detached from album page, March 2018.
No. 69: Religious card by unknown designer; music-making angels with cherubs in cloudy blue sky, framed by arch lettered: ‘Rejoice … of God’. Chromolithograph panel card with gold highlights, no publication details, stuck down; undated.
No. 70: Christmas card designed by Bertha Maguire, spray of heather and forget-me-nots, signed by artist lower left. Chromolithograph panel card with greeting in silver lettering: ‘With … happy Christmas’; and publisher’s name, ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Copyright’ lettered below. Inscr. by Duchess of Teck: ‘“Mother dear” … my darling May’; card stuck down; undated.
No. 71: Christmas and New Year card by unknown designer, cherub and pink-flowered plant. Chromolithograph panel card with gold embossed lettering: ‘A merry … new Year.’; unknown publisher, stuck down; undated.
NB: Album page with nos 69, 70 and 71: QM’s mature hand, purple pencil, identifies sender as Duchess of Teck.
No. 72: Pictogram Christmas card lettered: ‘Through the Christmas cold and snow / May our friendship warmer grow / And may this [here embossed image of copper warming pan] A token be …. Wishing you a right Happy Christmas’; and lettered with publisher’s initials, lower left: ‘H.J.B. - Copyright and Reg.d 102160’. Panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 73: New Year card, two horse shoes with lettering: ‘“Good luck to you” / A Happy New Year / and many returns’, the image and lettering white embossed on grey card; unknown publisher. Panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; undated.
No. 74: Christmas and New Year card, monkey holding broken writing slate and peering through hole at left; ‘chalk’ greetings on the slate: ‘Wishing … and New Year’. Chromolithograph panel card lettered at bottom: ‘Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Copyright / H&F No.1003 / Designed in England / Printed in Germany’. Card from Princess Henry of Battenberg, inscr. in ink: ‘For / dear Georgie / from his / very affectionate / aunt Beatrice’ / Xmas 1889’. Sender identified in QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 75: Christmas card by unknown designer, branch of pink hawthorn (or May) blossom on panel with gold and silver highlights, lettered: ‘Wishing … happy Christmas’, and below, publisher’s details: ‘W. Hagelberg / No.33. Copyright’. Panel card, stuck down; sender unknown; dated ‘1889’ on album page.
No. 76: Card designed by Annie Simpson, upturned parasol filled with blue forget-me nots, signed ‘Annie Simpson’ below parasol. Chromolithograph panel card with gold lettering ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch’ [heartfelt / sincere congratulations]; unknown publisher; stuck down; sender unknown; dated ‘1889’ on album page.
No. 77: Card designed by William Stephen Coleman, fair-haired girl with clasped hands and butterfly wings, signed ‘WSColeman’ below elbow. Chromolithograph panel card lettered ‘Le più sincere felicitazioni’; unknown publisher; stuck down; sender unknown; dated ‘1889’ on album page.
No. 78: Card embossed to simulate small brown purse decorated with birds, stitching and silver clasp; inside two pockets with pull-out section reproducing folded cheque (‘1889’) and five card coins (embossed date 1887 and Queen Victoria’s young head); pull-out section damaged, loose parts in pockets, March 2018. Inscriptions on purse incl. sentiment incorporating quote from Shakespeare’s Othello (‘Who steals my purse steals trash’); ‘Good luck and happy days befal’; and ‘With best wishes for a merry Christmas’. Chromolithograph, unknown publisher; sender unknown; dated ‘1889’ on album page. For another purse see No. 6 above. Ref. Buday 1954 p.171, pl.161. Fragile.
No. 79: New year card, unknown designer, thrush and nest and branch of apple blossom, lettered: ‘Wishing you a Happy New Year’ and with anon. four-line sentiment (‘Bright …. With happiness beam!’). Chromolithograph panel card, publisher details at lower left: ‘Marcus Ward & Co. Limited’. Inscr. in ink on reverse by Duchess and Duke of Fife: ‘[…] best wishes to / darling Georgie / from Louise / and Macduff’; undated. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 80: New year card designed by Mrs Cheverton White, birds in flight, signed below: ‘C.White’ and lettered ‘A joyful New Year’. Monochrome panel card, no publisher details; undated. Inscr. in ink on reverse by Princess Catherine of Wurttemberg: ‘wishes you your loving / aunt Catherine / for May’. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 81: Christmas card designed by ‘A.W.’, vignette of robin and two other birds on snowy larch branches, signed ‘A.W.’, lower right. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘May Christmas …Blessing’; and with publisher’s name below: ‘Hildesheimer & Faulkner’, ‘H&F. 767.B’, ‘Copyright’; undated. Inscr. in ink on reverse by Princess Victoria of Wales: ‘with every good / wish from / her Loving / Cousin / Toria’. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 82: Christmas card designed by Harry Payne, lancer seated on snowy bank, holding sprig of mistletoe, and lance with red and white pennon, signed ‘H. Payne’ at left. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘A Bright …. Christmas’, and with publisher’s name below: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons. Y Series 313 Copyright’; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Probably addressed to Prince George.
No. 83: Season’s greetings card designed by Harry Payne, mounted lancer with red and white pennon, snowy landscape, mistletoe on tree, signed ‘H. Payne’ lower left. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘With Seasons Greetings’, and below the publisher’s name: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons. Copyright’; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Probably addressed to Prince George.
No. 84: Christmas card designed by Harry Payne, military band march past, signed ‘H. Payne’ lower right. Chromolithograph panel card with silver frosting, lettered: ‘Christmas Greetings / Band of the “Royal Horse Guards” (Blue)’, and with publisher’s name below: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons X Series 442 Copyright’; stuck down, sender unknown; undated. Probably addressed to Prince George.
NB: The album page with these three ‘old soldier’ Christmas cards (nos 82-84) repr. Buday 1954, pl.200, where dated 1880s.
No. 85: Christmas card by unknown designer, branch of autumn berries and foliage and two butterflies. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘A joyous Christmas’, and with publisher’s name at lower right: ‘Copyright 1888 by L. Prang & Co. Boston’; inscr. in ink on reverse by Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh: ‘George / With best wishes from / Uncle Alfred’. Sender identified, on card, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 86: Greetings card, embossed image of three goldfinches on branch of pink blossom over which hangs scroll of paper inscr.: ‘Gruss aus / Luxemburg’ (Greetings from Luxemburg); below this, in gold lettering: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch’(‘congratulations’). Gold bevelled panel card, unknown publisher, undated, inscr. in ink on reverse by Adolphus, Grand Duke of Luxemburg: ‘With best thanks for the [?nice] / Christmas card I send to my / sweet little niece May the best / wishes for new year. / Adolphus’. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 87: Triptych card, soldiers in three sentry boxes, from left to right: infantryman, mounted lancer, and hussar. Chromolithograph with hand colouring, lettered beneath central lancer: ‘7th Lancers / H.5.C.&Co.’ [publisher], and inscr. in ink: ‘India’. Dated 1890 on album page. Card stuck down, sender unknown; probably addressed to Prince George.
No. 88: New Year card, late summer scene, corn sheaf, cattle and flock of poultry incl. turkeys; artist’s initials at lower right: ‘(?E)B’. Chromolithograph panel card lettered: ‘Happy New Year … “Auld Lang Syne”’; and with publisher’s name lower left: ‘Copyright 1885 by L. Prang & Co. Boston’; stuck down, sender unknown; dated 1890 on album page.
No. 89: Christmas card by unknown designer, pink and white blossom around four-line sentiment by E.E. Griffin (‘A shake of the hand … on this day.’). Shaped, embossed chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher; printed with gold letters: ‘Christmas greeting with best wishes’. Card stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
NB: Pencil numbering of cards diverges from BM stamped numbers by two digits from nos 89 to 112.
No. 90: Christmas card by unknown designer, bell composed of daisies rung by two cherubs. Embossed and shaped chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher, printed in gold lettering: ‘May the Christmas Bells ring thee happiness’; inscr. by Princess Beatrice: ‘dear May / from your very affectate. Aunt Beatrice’. Card stuck down; undated. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 91: Card by unknown designer, rusty horseshoe dripping with icicles framing smaller card, cottage scene with sprig of flowering hawthorn (May blossom) lettered: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch’ (‘congratulations’). Shaped chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher, stuck down; sender unknown. Dated 1891 on album page.
No. 92: Greetings card by unknown designer, on cover, autumnal blackberry bough over words: ‘A / Greeting.’ Three-fold chromolithograph card by Castell Brothers, with shaped cover. Inside, quotation (‘All things / thou mayest / wish I pray / God grant / thee’) signed ‘Wm. Morris’; red field poppies on centre panel; and lettering: ‘To / From’, ‘Designed in England’, ‘Castell Brothers.’, ‘Printed in Bavaria’. Inscr. in ink by Queen Victoria: ‘dearest May / her very affectionate / (future) / grandmama VRI / 1891’. Dated 1891 on album page.
Repr. Buday 1954, pl.40. Sender identified, on album page, QM’s mature hand, purple pencil.
No. 93: New Year card designed by Albert Bowers, monochrome summer river scene in oval, signed at lower right: ‘Albt. Bowers’. Lithograph by unknown publisher, lettered in gold: ‘A / happy / New Year’, with silvered flowers and birds at three corners of feigned mount; panel card, stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1891 on album page.
No. 94: Valentine card, gouache painting by unknown artist, bouquet of pink hawthorn (‘May’) and white orange blossom tied with pink ribbon on which inscr.: ‘I’ll tie the posie round with the silken band of love’. Panel card, stuck down, sender unknown; undated.
No. 95: Card by unknown designer, snowy village scene framed in ‘mount’, cluster of daisies at top left. Chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher; embossed and shaped, printed in gold lettering: ‘Die besten Glückwünsche’ (‘warmest congratulations/wishes’); bronze frosting on the daisies. Card stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1892 on album page.
No. 96: New Year card by unknown designer, branch entwined with convolvulus, embossed and naturalistic, ‘woven’ through the card. Chromolithograph by unknown publisher; folder card, zigzag and scalloped edges, anon. six line sentiment inside (‘God bless … shining!’) referencing twining flowers; signed and dated by Queen Victoria: ‘your / ?devoted future Grandmama / Jan. 1.1892’ (Princess May became engaged to Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence Dec. 1891). Sender identified on album page in purple pencil, QM’s mature hand. Dated 1892 on album page.
No. 97: New Year card by unknown designer, summer landscape with church. Chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher; four-line sentiment by Samuel K. Cowan (‘The brightest … bestow’); stuck down; Inscr. in ink by Princess Beatrice: ‘dear May, from yr very affectate. / aunt Beatrice / 1892’. Sender identified on album page in purple pencil, QM’s mature hand.
No. 98: Watercolour drawing by unknown artist, beached fishing boat, rocky foreground at right. Card stuck down, sender unknown; not inscribed or dated. No further information.
No. 99: New year card by unknown designer, horseshoe wreath of pink and white flowers, pink lilies at top centre. Embossed chromolithograph panel card, unknown publisher; two-line sentiment by ‘A.F.E.’, probably the American A. F. Earl (‘Bright be … from today’); stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1892 on album page.
No. 100: Christmas card by unknown designer, couple in elegant C.18 dress, she presenting him with a ribbon. Chromolithograph panel card, embossed in shape of feathered fan, lettered: ‘Bright Christmas Joys’; unknown publisher; stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1892 on album page.
No. 101: Christmas card designed by F. Corbyn Price, rectangular vignette of church set against thicket of brambles; signed. Chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher, lettered: ‘Abide with / us’; ‘A / happy / Christmas / to you. / The Peniel’ (see The Peniel Series publ. Castell Bros.); stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1892 on album page.
No. 102: Greetings card, pen & ink and watercolour, signed bottom left: ‘A. Bauerle’; little girl holding branches of pink blossom; inscr. in branch lettering: ‘Seine / Güte / währet ewiglich’ (His goodness endures for ever), and below right: ‘Ps.106.1.’. Card stuck down, sender unknown, undated; no further information.
No. 103: New Year card, ships and distant harbour, design by unknown artist. Small folder card by unknown publisher, watercolour highlights, top right corner of card folded back, gold embossed anchor and rope; lettered inside: ‘With kind … New Year from’. Inscr. in ink by Queen Victoria: ‘To dear Georgie / with every good wish for / his health and happiness / from his devoted Grandmama /VRI / Jan. 1. 1892’. Sender identified on album page in purple pencil in QM’s mature hand. Fragile: folder card split in two, March 2018.
No. 104: Greetings card by unknown designer, swallows lining up on telegraph wire over winding road. Panel card, monochrome print on silk, lettered: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch!’, edged with blue silk trim and gilt paper-lace border; unknown publisher; stuck down; sender identified on album page, in QM’s purple pencil, as Princess Alice of Albany. Dated 1893 on album page.
No. 105: Girls’ Christmas card in form of four-page letter from ‘Santa Claus’, rebus with pictograms about gift of a doll; unknown designer. Chromolithograph with sketches and facsimile handwriting, lettered on last page with publisher’s name: ‘Castell Brothers’ and ‘Printed in Bavaria’; and inscr. in ink at the bottom of the page, in a childish hand: ‘Alice … Charlie.’ (the card may be completely removed). ‘Charlie’ identified in QM’s purple pencil on album page as Prince Charles Edward, second duke of Albany. Dated 1893 on album page. Ref. Buday 1954 pp.156-7, repr. pls 128 and 129.
No. 106: New Year card, wreath of embossed flowers (forget-me-not and lily of the valley) looped around ‘visiting’ style card with dentilled edges; lettered: ‘With best …. New Year’, and with quotation from Shakespeare’s Henry VI: ‘Fair be all thy hopes /… and prosperous be thy life’. Chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher, stuck down; signed by Prince of Wales [later Edward VII]: ‘your devoted / Albert Edward’, and dated 1893. Sender identified in QM’s hand in purple pencil, and dated 1893 on album page.
No. 107: Greetings card with printed message: ‘Die besten Glückwünsche’ (‘warmest congratulations/wishes’).
Shaped and animated chromolithograph by unknown German publisher; cut-out angels pulling gold threads to ‘ring’ bells in silver-frosted tower, its window glazed with pink celluloid. Three-dimensional trick card, folds flat into envelope inscr.: ‘For dear May with my warmest / good wishes for / 1893’; sender identified by QM on album page as Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. Preserved in envelope. Ref. Buday 1954 p.170, repr. pl.159. Fragile.
No. 108: Handmade greetings card by unknown artist, small watercolour of summer lakeside scene, mounted on grey card decorated with birds and rushes; lettered by hand: ‘With All Good Wishes’; and inscr. in pen and ink: ‘from / yr. affectionate / Liko’. Sender identified on album page as Prince Henry of Battenberg in QM’s hand, purple pencil. Dated 1893 on album page.
No. 109: Christmas card by unknown designer, pink ribbon tied in bow around pink heather top left. Chromolithograph panel card by unknown publisher, with cut-out, punched and scalloped border; the card lettered: ‘For Auld lang Syne … your welfare’; stuck down, sender unknown. Dated 1893 on album page.
No. 110: Christmas card, embossed and decorated with gilt ivy leaf design. Folder card, unknown publisher, lettered inside: ‘Frae Bonnie Scotland … Merry Christmas’ around sprig of pressed heather; unsigned, sender unknown. Dated 1893 on album page.
No. 111: New Year card by unknown designer, pink clematis winding around trellis. Triptych card by unknown publisher, embossed, perforated and cut away, trellis decorated with purple glass frosting, gilt lettering on cover: ‘happy / may thy / New- / Year / be’; inside eight-line sentiment by ‘E.M.N.’: ‘Sunny be … of a fairer dawn’. Signed: ‘your loving / [indecipherable name; same hand as No.60]’; sender unknown; dated 1893 on album page. Fragile card.
No. 112: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch’(congratulations) card, a boy pushing a girl in a wheelbarrow in the snow.
Animated card by unknown German publisher; pulling tab at base raises up three layers of embossed, frosted, chromolithograph scraps, and reveals printed sentiment: ‘Mit des Tages … lebens Glück!’ printed on a summer image. Inscr. in pencil on reverse by Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (shaky hand): ‘To dear May / from / Uncle Fritz’. Fragile but in working order; folds flat into envelope, March 2018.
- Producer name
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Drawn by: Miss Amelia Bowerley (1947,1011.3.102)
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After: William Stephen Coleman (1947,1011.3.77)
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After: Kate Greenaway (1947,1011.3.5 and 1947,1011.3.18)
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After: Alice Mary Havers (1947,1011.3.57)
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After: Lizzie Lawson (1947,1011.3.59)
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After: Robert Finlay McIntyre (1947,1011.3.46)
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After: William Jabez Muckley (1947,1011.3.40)
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Published by: Castell Brothers (1947,1011.3.54, 1947,1011.3.56, 1947,1011.3.92, 1947,1011.3.101 and 1947,1011.3.106)
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Published by: De La Rue (1947,1011.3.10)
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Published by: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd (1947,1011.3.19)
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Published by: Charles Goodall & Sons (1947,1011.3.15 and 1947,1011.3.16)
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Published by: S Hildesheimer & Co Ltd (1947,1011.3.13, 1947,1011.3.40, 1947,1011.3.41, 1947,1011.3.57, 1947,1011.3.59, 1947,1011.3.64, 1947,1011.3.65, 1947,1011.3.74 and 1947,1011.3.81)
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Published by: Louis Prang & Co (1947,1011.3.30, 1947,1011.3.36, 1947,1011.3.85 and 1947,1011.3.88)
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Published by: J F Schipper & Co (1947,1011.3.20)
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Published by: Raphael Tuck & Sons (1947,1011.3.46, 1947,1011.3.58, 1947,1011.3.70, 1947,1011.3.82, 1947,1011.3.83 and 1947,1011.3.84)
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Published by: Marcus Ward & Co (1947,1011.3.1, 1947,1011.3.5, 1947,1011.3.18, 1947,1011.3.27, 1947,1011.3.28, 1947,1011.3.32, 1947,1011.3.42, and 1947,1011.3.79)
- Dimensions
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Width: 290 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cards are arranged roughly chronologically in the album, mainly addressed to Princess May (QM), a number addressed to Prince George (i.e., the future George V). A large number of cards have been pasted down, obscuring details of sender/recipient/date. The names have been identified by the signatures, or by QM’s later notes on the album page. For a number of cards, stuck down and lacking notes by QM, the sitter cannot be identified.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: Princess Mary of Cambridge (sender: 1947,1011.3.6, 1947,1011.3.9, 1947,1011.3.15 and 1947,1011.3.16)
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Associated with: Frederica of Hanover (sender: 1947,1011.3.13)
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Associated with: Queen Victoria (sender: 1947,1011.3.10, 1947,1011.3.54, 1947,1011.3.92, 1947,1011.3.96 and 1947,1011.3.103)
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Associated with: Francis, Duke of Teck (sender: 1947,1011.3.48)
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Associated with: Prince Francis of Teck (sender: 1947,1011.3.45 and 1947,1011.3.49)
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Associated with: Princess Hélène d'Orléans, Duchess of Aosta (sender: 1947,1011.3.47)
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Associated with: Louise, Princess Royal (sender: 1949,1011.3.50 and 79)
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Associated with: Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII (sender: 1949,1011.3.53, 1947,1011.3.55, 1947,1011.3.56 and 1947,1011.3.70)
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Associated with: Princess Beatrice (sender: 1947,1011.3.74 and 1947,1011.3.90)
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Associated with: Princess Catherine of Württemberg (sender: 1947,1011.3.80)
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Associated with: Princess Victoria of Wales (sender: 1947,1011.3.81)
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Associated with: Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (sender: 1949,1011.3.86)
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Associated with: Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (sender: 1949,1011.3.85)
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Associated with: Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (sender: 1947,1011.3.59)
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Associated with: Victoria, Empress Frederick of Germany (sender: 1947,1011.3.62)
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Associated with: Princess Alice of Albany (sender: 1947,1011.3.105)
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Associated with: Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (sender: 1947,1011.3.105)
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Associated with: Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (sender: 1947,1011.3.106)
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Associated with: Princess Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (sender: 1947,1011.3.107)
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Associated with: Prince Henry of Battenberg (sender: 1947,1011.3.108)
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Associated with: Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (sender: 1947,1011.3.112)
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Associated with: Frederic E Weatherly (author of verses, 1947,1011.3.13 and 1947,1011.3.54)
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1947,1011.3.1-112
