FLYING TO GREET YOU(illuminated), 3 black girls look up at 5 black people in aeroplane

Item
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Set

Greeting THE KING AND QUEEN (Ed VII & G.V. period), Made in Saxony, Christmas & New Year, artist: H. Dix Sandford

Set Comment

logo over RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD -- PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD -- LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK - with or w/o MONTREAL; -- DESIGNED AT THE STUDIOS IN ENGLAND AND PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS IN SAXONY


Title

FLYING TO GREET YOU(illuminated), 3 black girls look up at 5 black people in aeroplane

In set

KED&KGV Saxony

Item Comment

oblong cover & sheet secured by thread, single folds, 3 narrow yellow margins, embossed inside left:- black & white sketch of bird perched in tree right top:- CHRISTMAS GREETINGS below:-NOW, WHETHER ONE'S A DARKIE OR A WHITE DEPENDS ON DE COLOUR OF DE SKIN; AND DISTINCTIONS OF DIS KIND ARE NOT POLITE, ON A POINT DAT DOES NOT SIGNIFY A PIN, SO WE FLY, WHEN CHRISTMAS-BELLLS RESOUND, TO WISH GOOD LUCK AND HAPPINESS ALL ROUND.

Type

Greeting Card

Artist

H. Dix Sandford (unsigned)

Size

12.8 x 9 cm.

Topics

Children Christmas