logo over TRADE MARK --BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT-- PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN -- RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD -- LONDON ; PARIS ; NEW YORK -- DESIGNED AT THE STUDIOS IN ENGLAND AND PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS IN BAVARIA, with or without COPYRIGHT, with or without ARTISTIC SERIES
GOOD WISHES on top ivy leaf, purple blossom on leaves, complex perforated ivy design behind
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die-cut single sheet, four folds to give overlapping front flaps, embossed inside centre:- bird flies above WITH EVERY GOOD WISH FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR below:-MAY THE NEW YEAR WHEREVER YOU MAY BE, BRING HAPPINESS AND ALL PROSPERITY, AND MAY THE CHANGING SEASONS HOLD FOR YOU, THE OLD, OLD JOYS AS WELL AS PLEASURES NEW. used in 1897
