Iris Collection (#13)

Design for a novelty 4th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Good Luck at School card design
Original Artwork - design for a Good Luck at School greetings card with a boy and a girl in new school uniform and a cat wearing a matching school tie! Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for a novelty Christmas card - Invitation - sprig of mistletoe hanging over a comfy armchair Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 1st birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - folding childrens Christmas card
Original Artwork - painted design for a folding childrens Christmas card featuring three boys and three girls carrying gifts and holly. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 5th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 6th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Christmas fold-out greetings card - playing card king - Wishing you Good Bridge this Christmas. Date: circa 1937

Christmas greetings card - Little girl brings in the pudding
Christmas greetings card - Little girl brings in the Christmas pudding, topped with a sprig of holly. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - design for party invitation - Its a Date
Original Artwork - design for a party invitation - Its a Date! Boy with fizzy juice drink, girl with cup of tea. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Nursery Rhyme Series Gummed Stickers
Original Artwork - Designs for six Nursery Rhyme Series Gummed Stickers Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Thanks for the present - postcard design
Original Artwork - Design for a childrens postcard - Thanks for the Present. A little girl holds the doll she has just taken out of a patterned gift box. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Nursery Rhyme Series Labels
Original Artwork - Designs for six Nursery Rhyme Series Labels Date: circa 1937

Happy Family gift card - Scottie dog in tartan coat Date: 1938

Original Artwork - Thank you card design
Original Artwork - Design for a thank you card - teddy bear reading a book up a tree while a Scottie dog sits patiently below. Date: circa 1937

Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Melting Snowman
Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Snowman meets his demise thanks to rain and the kindly gift of a hot water bottle from a little girl. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas thank you card - Vintage Couple
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas thank you card - Vintage Couple exchanging gifts before departure. Date: circa 1937

Greetings Card - Happy Birthday
Birthday Greetings Card - A little girl taking her small pet dog for a walk. Date: circa 1937

Greetings card - My Birthday Wishes
Birthday Greetings Card - A little boy carefully writing a card or letter at his desk, kneeling on a stool. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas card - Holly Basket
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas card - overflowing basket of holly. Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Jack Horner
Place marker - Heres __________s Corner! cries Jack Horner. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas thank you card - Flower Seller
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas thank you card - Flower Seller. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas Cracker packaging design
Original Artwork - Painted design for advertising/packaging for C.W.S. Christmas Crackers, with the crackers coming to life and wandering away! Date: circa 1937

Christmas greetings card - The Young Navigator - a toddler sailing a toy ship on the sea. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Painted flowers - Game counters
Original Artwork - painted flowers - counters for a game design, My Flower Day. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Folding Christmas card design
Original Artwork - Painted design for a folding childrens Christmas card featuring five teddy bears. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Boy giving flower to little girl
Original Artwork - Cut-out silhouette of a boy gardener giving a flower to a little girl Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Girl presenting pie to boy
Original Artwork - Cut-out silhouette of a little girl presenting a pie to a young boy Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas thank you card design
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas thank you card - teddy bear holding a green balloon and sprig of mistletoe. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Discrimination - A late Tudor-era woman peers into her teacup. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Valentine card - mask removed
Original Artwork - Design for a Valentines card with removable mask - Coy, yet cautious; Loving yet shy; Here, Dear Valentine, Am I! Woman emerges from behind her mask. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for Christmas card
Original Artwork - Design for a silhouette Christmas card - Greetings from the Nursery Folk - Mother Goose. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for a romantic card, possibly a Valentine - Young couple share a loving look - he has a large bouquet of flowers at the ready. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Valentine card - woman in mask
Original Artwork - Design for a Valentine card with removable mask - Coy, yet cautious; Loving yet shy; Here, Dear Valentine, Am I! Woman hiding behind her mask. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Railway porter with laden trolley
Original Artwork - Collage design for a stationery company to promote their Varnished Leather paper - a railway porter struggling to wheel a large amount of luggage on a trolley. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for a fold-out New Home - New Address - greetings card in the shape of a house. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas card design - Two Bears
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas card - Bearing Greetings. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Card design for second birthday
Original Artwork - Design for a folding second birthday card. A Lovely party tea in full swing with jelly, cake and party hats. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for a Party Invitation - a girl and boy arrive and ring the doorbell - Do Come! Date: circa 1937

Christmas place marker - Dutch boy with large cracker
Christmas place marker - Little Dutch boy in traditional costume, holding a large cracker. Date: circa 1937

Christmas place marker - Dutch boy with large spoon
Christmas place marker - Little Dutch boy in traditional costume, holding a large spoon. Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Little boy with mistletoe
Original Artwork - Design for a circular place marker, showing a young boy holding up a sprig of Christmas mistletoe against a star-filled background. Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Little Boy Blue is looking for you
Place marker - __________ Little Boy Blue is looking for you! Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Little Miss Muffet
Place marker - Heres Little Miss Muffet to show _________ her tuffet. Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Mary Contrary in Gardening Kit, wants to show _____________ where to sit. Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Wee Willie Winkle
Place marker - Willie Winkles here to show ______________ the way to go. Date: circa 1937

Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with umbrella
Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with an umbrella under a dark cloud - happy to ignore the forecast and Bear Up! Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas card - Little girl and bird
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas Greetings card - silhouette of a young girl and her pet dog stopping to look at a small bird on a tree branch. Date: circa 1937

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