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Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7741, 22 December 1890, Page 3

CHRISTMAS : ■: ■ - AND jfEW YEAR CARDS. SSW SBASON-189ML *-rfeief New Series of Christmas ♦SSrear Cards and Souvenirs troia S SetoSedFto*Art Pnblishew in France, Germany. r a end America, SELECTED BY OUR *: HOME AGENTS Lgjt THE CHRISTMAS SEASON fi, J. WOOD & CO, STATIONERS , HALT m BI G H SIRE ET, CfiRISTCHUBCH. WE have the pleasure to announce --."s ««" aaaaaartSß 5rW YEAR CARDS, new publications in Sfflolß and &OUVENIKS for the SSng season, are now to hand, an ready *Ti2? assortment is the largest and Aaleestever imported into this colony, Swnm-iaing selections from the most celeSted BagUsh pabiishere, as weU as parcels from Paris, Vienna, and ifawYork, and a splendid variety of gems - rffi*no*n high art productions, senc br Mr Berlin agents direct. These last are jtvseeial feature in this season's display, iXwefeolcertain, wUi only have to be to be admired. These cards are tjfpQBTED ONLY BY H. J. WOOD . AND CO., iai not obtainable from any other eatab- , lihuieQt in the colony of New Zealand. Iddittooal Parcels arrive by mail steamer front time to time as they are published OF ... NEW SEASON CHRISTMAS CARDS, Iα addition to a large and varied collec - ggpß of price designs in Christmas and ■Jew Year Cards, from some of the most ■Jaajeent publishers in England and AmejtoreceiVed by mail direct, our London 'etonts have this year given extra attentfijgito the selection of

2KTISELY NOVEL SERIES OF C ARD Ab& have succeeded in securing for v iqsm perfect works of art iv miniature Iran toe easels of some of the best-known iitieu of the day, comprising SffVEBAL THOUSAND NEW DESIGNS ICter stoclc numbers over 40,000, ranging nfirice from iSd per packet of 25 to Ws Heb, aod we are in a position to suit all ''Mrcoksers; but as there are many Jfeadred rare and choice designs of which eneooly has beea sent, we would respect|n»f requeat our frienas to call early and Sat their choice without delay. shall not attempt to describe the of artiaCic gems displayea, that bdag impossible in so small a space, we will merely say that it Is the finest assortrteotevereeetibere (see opiaioae of the .Kew), and the public will agree with us fb thl» statement. IBXSAOT . FROM "IHE PRESS," , : Friday, November 14th, 1S&0. - MESSES WOOD, AND CO. ' fErery. season the firm makes a very ahow, and.tbls is.no exception to the rale. 'The younger portion of the ewaaiaaity will 00 delighted to And here junp<&UEed eSLgie* of chuse benefactors of jßuth JS&nta Klaoa and his good wife mm with presents. Jewelled cards and .tats devices are in great profusion, some «£ them being exceedingly pretty and aafsnl* The opals displayed by Messrs •flood and 00. are this year most artistic, Wats of the large heads, both colored and plain,-especially so. The series of emlotted satin flowers, to which reference jltt already been made, are very pretty fedtsd, all the natural coloring and form <l tiie, flowers represented being repro4aced with much lidellty. The booklets, as in former years, are Iα almost endless 'farfctj, and the illustrations are very executed. In the novelties there is a quaint design of a child's pimv fate, out of which by pulling a piece of Wi pops the heads of three crying chil tirec, Just the sort of thing to make a tntalyuld bachelor happy for life on its Veeclpt. Then there are cards in the form «i parses, out of which stream showers of v«slth hi the shape of sovereigns, notes, others in the shape of open boxes of ,«fdloee, and of the pie ouc of which the loiur-tod-twenty blackbirds are said to 'tfevemade their escape and sang merrily :«Wafterwards. All these quaint couCelts asd many more can be seen in the display made by the ilrm, and 3 tte only trou. le will be wten visitors go temtke their purchases to decide what to ouyout of so much that ia attractive. ,.

1 W* may mention the fact that our Sale .at Christmas and New Year Cards last Mssoß exceeded that of the previous year lyora Forty per cent;, and with a larger Week aod more varied assortment than eefcre, we confidently expect that the emainK demand will 4 be largely in excess « former seasons.

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1/PHOTO ALBUMS. •tt/EHAVE NOW LANDED and ON tf , SALS (Wholesale and xtetail) »»«ral hundred pmO ALLUMS OF THE NEWEST :* , DESIGNS* Wtth Expanding Clasps and other Improvements. ,*&• is th« Finest Assortment of Photo awams ever Imported into (his colony •*« by far the best value, connidering the quality and hijc)i-class Anisti in β^uvieofgoods. * lo describe the various patterns and all {■ttiealars of Bindings, in Calf, Morocco S**ia Leather, Austrian Calf Inlaid, and *«r*l Illuminated, would require too feecb. space, we shall merely say that they .Wsa SAMPLE SHIPMENT fsS? oae °* tiie Manufacturing fnsms in Europe, and that they range in IP* from 4s 6d, 63 6d, 8a Gd, 10s 6d, 12s, »iaeed,2os,223 6d,255, 27s 6a, 30s, 325, *», 40s, 425, and so on up to £0 each. '- *?* cordially invite inspection to this gge&aid Assortment of Goods, being can- ' SSP, 6 to * t *to* opinion will be—" There is 3S?fes to equal these Albums in the PHOTO FRAMES. TI7X HAVB also a Large Assortment FT. of New PHOTO PBAMES, < Very Choice Patterns and Splendia Value, H. J. WOOD & CO/ [ : '' and general . BTATI6NEBS, , WK)KSELLEBS AND NEWS AGENTS STATIONEES , HALL. • £ Sto High Stsebt, Christchurch.