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Title(s):
Happy may they birthday be.
Published/Created:
[England?], [1880?]
Physical Description:
1 item : color illustrations ; 22 x 8 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
BJ2095.G5 H37a Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12710467
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
19th century pop-up birthday card. Glazed blue paper covers, white scallop edge, red rose embossed on cover: "Happy may they birthday be." Opens to three-dimensional tiered garden with chromolithographed standing statues, fountains, floral arrangments, and two children sitting in a gazebo, against a blue transparent paper background.
Subject Terms:
Birthday cards -- Specimens.
Cut-out craft -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Pop-up books.
Ephemera.
Recreations -- Great Britain.
Botanical illustrations.
Birthday cards.
Paperwork (Crafts)
Greeting cards.
Chromolithographs -- 1880.
Cut-paper works.
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