Company) were created specially for this purpose.
Passing by, therefore, these foreign made post-cards, I come to the first real English series of Christmas and New Year post-cards printed in England, for the English market. These bore on the left-band side photographs of pretty children peeping through corta offering flowers, or dancing a minuet in costume; on the right-hand side were printed the greetings together with the words "To" and " From" with lines for writing in names of sender and recipient. From these small beginnings sprang what was speedily destined to become one of the most popular phases of eartophily,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.