Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Wishing you a fizzing time this ... Christmas ... effervescing with mirth and jollity.

Published / Created:

London : Angus Thomas, [approximately 1880?]

Physical Description:

1 Christmas card : color illustrations ; 9 x 14 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1866.C5 W57 1880 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Christmas card postcard. Cream card with text printed in brown. Mounted on front are two color lithographed labels: "Seidletz. Have a drink and a fizzing time together. When we two meet let it be."

Text on verso in ink: From Gladys to Mr. Critchlow.

Verse: Your joys o'erflow this Festive Season, But of those Joys, a Feast of Reason, I hope you'll wisely make, and so avoid the cause for drinking a Seidlitz Powder, which I'm thinking would be a great mistake.

Subject Terms:

Christmas cards -- Specimens. | Advertising -- Great Britain. | Seidletz (Firm) | Drugs, Nonprescription -- Great Britain.

Form/Genre:

Christmas cards. | Postcards. | Ephemera.