- Victorian
- Greeting Card
- Manufacturers
- for Christmas
- and the
- New Year
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Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens, inventor and manufacturer of the illuminated pure silk-woven book markers, also produced silk-centred and silk-fringed Christmas, Valentine and birthday cards from the mid 1870s.
The Stevengraph Works, Coventry with offices in London and New York
![Image of silk edged birthday card](images/xp16_5.jpg)
Single and folded cards with silk fringes were more expensive than ordinary unadorned ones and provided the buyer with something more delicate and pretty.
![Image of Thomas Stevens trade card](images/xp16_1.jpg)
Cards are identified by initials "TS" or "Thomas Stevens" printed in the corner of the picture or the firm's trade mark, a book containing bookmarks resting upon a cushion, on reverse.![Image of Thomas Stevens trade mark](images/xp16_4.jpg)
- Middle
- Silk-edged folded
birthday card
- 165 x 89mm (6½ x 3½in)
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- Bottom
- Cover of Thomas Stevens trade card for silk-edged perfumed cards
- 89 x 114mm (3½ x 4½in)
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