THE SOUVENIR SEEKER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 18

THE SOUVENIR SEEKER

SOME BRITISH-MADE GOODS TO SUIT EVERY PURSE (From Our Own Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) LONDON, April 20. Every kind of shop is gay with every kind of souvenir for the silver, jubilee, and after the annual Easter egg season has been forgotten further ideas' for souvenir collectors will become available. Some articles cost a few pence, while others at the luxury end of the list cost pounds. There is plenty for everyone. British-made goods will, unfortunately, have to compete with many foreign imports, hut one can only hope that patriotism will be foremost in the minds of all shoppers. Details for the writing table begin with silver-coated lead pencils, English made, costing twopence each. Each one bears the inscription: " Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935. God Bless the King and Queen." Cabinets holding stationery are of silver, bearing pictures of their Majesties on the lid. Blotting pads are similarly ornamented, and pen holders are of red, white, and blue. The handkerchief sachet can be renewed by handkerchiefs of varied hues, each printed with a small, close design showing the Union Jack, the emblems of England, Scotland, and AVales and the dates 1910, 1935; these details are printed over and over again until they achieve en masse a neat Pompadour effect. Among the high-class goods made in London and Birmingham outstanding are cigarette cases and flapjack cases, of white enamel, with stripes of red and blue in one corner, and a jewelled crown in relief as a centrepiece. Others are of silver or chromium plate, with crown whose gems scintillate with red, blue, and white stones. There are brooches and gold scarf pins, all prepared as suitable jubilee souvenirs, and there are crown-shaped ornaments of brilliants to be worn on dress or on millinery. There also are rings and long bar brooches made with stones that arc interchangeable^—imitation rubies, diamonds, sapphires, according to the colour of the dress. With imitation stones of five varieties, a brooch costs 30 shillings. PLAYING CARDS. There are not many people who are not interested in playing cards. The well-appointed table is always made attractive by cards with artistic backs. Every souvenir gatherer will 1;? intrigued by the two-pack boxes prepared by the house of de la Rue. One series has excellent head and shoulder portraits, in colour, of the King and Queen; another series of two packs has full-length portraits of their Majesties in Coronation robes and in the robes of State which they wear when Parliament opens. Apropos of cards, one may mention the growing fashion for monogram packs, the back of each individual card having the owner's initials printed by a special machine while one stands by and watches. The printing charge is 2s Cd per pack. Packs of red and blue, mongranimed, come into the jubilee range. Novel, too, for this year are silver playing cards made of aluminium, with the pips in deep red. This novel and expensive line is advocated for out-of-door use. FROM POTTERYLAND. Staffordshire has seen to it that the pottery interest can well hold its own. There are mugs, beakers, "ten sets, and large plates for fruit or cakes, in lovely creamy china with coloured portraits of the King and Queen. Mugs and beakers have, on the reverse, the coats of arms of the dominions, linked together with the words, " The Empire on which the sun never sets." They are excellent and will be instructive in the nursery. There are choice dessert services with miniature insets of their Majesties, and there are large round dishes, sold singly, suitable for many purposes, which make one feel rather covetous. Crystal glasses and bowls have pictures of the King and Queen somewhere daintily inset. There are numerous publications, some bound in purple and gold, giving the story of the outstanding events of the last 25 years. KING AT THE MICROPHONE. So many demands were made upon The Times for the excellent colour portrait of the King which was produced last November that it has been decided to republish the picture. The photograph i shows the King seated at the microphone ! in the room at Sandringham from which in the last two years he has delivered Christmas Day messages by wireless to his subjects in all parts of the worldThe portrait was taken by a staff photographer of The Times by means of the Dufaycolour Film process of instantaneous colour photography. In this system the whole of the colour is contained in the film itself, which can be used in an ordinary camera and exposed in the usual manner. When developed the film appears in natural colours. Over 40.000 of the earlier reprints have been sold in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the same institution is to benefit, again. This picture should be one of the most appropriate and popular of silver jubilee souvenirs, seeing that the King is to make another Empire broadcast on May 6.