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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19946, 13 November 1926, Page 20

VISITING CARDS WHICH WERE MORE LIKE BOOK PLATES.

The sober pasteboard to-day from madame’s casi a-calling is as different fro by the hooped and pow the 18th century as her b is from their stately intric and ribands. Theirs was would have prettiness ir which loved its sword-hilts its comfit-boxes and cloudi must be elegance even in my lady’s visiting cards, a tinent at least, even wel did not disdain to design for her pleasure. In aristocratic circles a p have been considered an i city, and while the lady’s ni surrounded by wreaths of r or set in a frame of gar! by doves and cupids, em of more original design to prove of what flights of century was capable. The joint card of two 1 has a quantity of substan stout cherubim engraved a “Les Deux Comtesse de X. est of the cherubim branc a scroll with the legend, “ diction.” Another countess had graved upon a card, prc against an elegant urn, \ with vines and asphodels, of the same rank used a < tirely covered bv an elabo framing views of several ings, presumably her fami the card of a fourth lady di and highly symbolic assor palms, and birds gathered i in Eastern dress leaning on English cards of the sa much less interesting, in t less imagination and orig were nearly always adome

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