Yale Center for British Art

Title:: Yours unalterably.
Published / Created:: [England?], [1875?]
Physical Description:: 1 card : color illustrations ; 9 x 7 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1860 .Y68 1875 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:: Copyright Undetermined
Notes:: Victorian greeting card with cameo center of chromolithographed botanical illustration in the middle of lace overlay. Mounted on green card. Die cut image of flowers at bottom with phrase "Yours unalterably." Ms inscription on verso: For dear Sissie with Mary's fond love." Accompanied with original white envelope with address in ms in center of embossed border: Miss Sissie c/o Waksham House [illegible] West Greenwich. Includes a "Penny Red" postage stamp affixed to envelope.
Subject Terms:: Greeting cards -- Specimens. | Amusements -- Great Britain. | Love. | Envelopes (Stationery) -- Specimens. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
Form/Genre:: Ephemera. | Greeting cards. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Botanical illustrations. | Cut-paper works. | Paperwork (Crafts) | Postage stamps -- Great Britain. | Chromolithographs -- 1875. | Embossing.