Description: Victorian Ephemera Trade Cards Lot of 7 Assorted Collection Heavy cardstock trade card with artwork and poems. Card fronts depict lovely home scenes of noteworthy men in history, with yellowing and signs of use and age (which adds greatly to their charm!). Backs show signs of being affixed to some type of memory book at some point, and depict a variety of testimonials about products and services which are mostly readable. Please zoom in to cards to view. Measurement of each card is approximately 6.5” x 4.75”. Includes the following: 1 - Rewstead Abbey Nottinghamshire: Birthplace and early home of Byron. “Virtue stands like the sun and all which rolls around drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect.” 2 - Holmes House. Cambridge Mass. “And if I should live to be the last leaf on the tree in the Spring, let them smile as I do now, at the old forsaken bough where I cling.” 3 - Abbotsford: Seat of Sir Walter Scott. “Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below and saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.” 4 - Longfellow’s Home. Cambridge Mass. “O Holy Night! From thee I learn to bear that man has borne before! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of care, and they complain no more.” 5 - Hawthorne Manse. Concord Mass. “ All care abandon he who enter here.” 6 - Birthplace of Thomas Moore 12 Gangier Str. Dublin. “O nature! Though blessed and bright are thy rays, o’er the brow of creation enchantingly thrown, yet faint are they all to the lustre that plays in smile from the heart that is dearly our own!” 7 - Tennyson’s Home at Aldworth, Surrey. “I held it truth, with him who sings to one clear harp in divers tones, that men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.” Packed with care and ready to ship. Check out my other listings for additional rare collectible antique ephemera. 1707
Price: 11.99 USD
Location: Payson, Utah
End Time: 2024-11-15T16:00:36.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type of Advertising: Victorian Era Products and Services
Color: Multi-color
Date of Creation: Victorian Era
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown