- Victorian
- Greeting Card
- Manufacturers
- for Christmas
- and the
- New Year
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Robert Canton
Canton’s business listing in the 1852 Post Office London Directory includes
“Artist in chromolithography, lithographic printer & publisher in general, valentine maker.”
Production of Christmas and New Year cards date from the early 1860s - 1880s.
Many early Christmas cards of the 1860s have much in common with the Valentine and were often produced by the same publishers.
- Above
- Canton Christmas card,
- pierced and embossed with
- central illustration printed by
- chromo-lithography
- circa 1860/70s
- 76 x 114mm (3 x 4½in)
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