‎BIRN BROTHERS ( London E.C.1 Bunhill Row 67 -70 ) :‎
‎Birn Brothers' Private Greeting Cards. Forget-me-not Series. ( Album with specimen - trade catalogue). Christmas Cards - New Year Cards .‎

‎12. London, Birn Brothers, (1909), oblong in-4° album, 23 x 29,5 cm, (10) nn pp , title page included, + 32 stiff board leaves (numbered 1-64) each containing between 2 and 4 original Christmas wishing cards, cards numbered 460 - 646 (in all 186 original cards), all leaves separated by serpents. Album bound in original publisher's imitation snake leather, gilt lettering on front cover. Finely produced trade catalogue to advertise the sale of Christmas and New Year cards for the 1909 season. All the cards contain wishes in prose or verse and the address of a sender and are fully printed and ornamented. Many cards contain additional chromolithographic of photo engraved illustrations, embossed ornaments, silk ribbons, separate tipped on gilt ornaments like golf sticks, bells, etc. All finely preserved. All cards have been tipped on to the boards which contain printed captions with price information. In the Writers' and Artists' Year-book 1928 the Birn Brothers company is still listed as purchasers of ''verses for greeting cards''.‎

Reference : 36369

‎‎