A Long November and Other Tales of Christmas
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Month: November 2017
We also met many of the next generation whose artist relatives were by then deceased. Nursery china Penguin Books published about books Books on art and design. As a result we were introduced to the son of her original publisher, Augener. He sold me several signed limited edition copies of her famous books.
Our prime concern is deciding how best to keep the collection intact after we depart. Currently we are at an advanced stage of building a Filemaker database for the postcard collection which may be extended to our greeting cards and other ephemera in due course. Ideally, we will want to sell the collection as a single entity to a university library or national institution either in the UK or abroad.
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One of our guests was Susan Pearse, artist of the Ameliaranne series of books from the twenties, thirties and forties, who was approaching years of age by the time the exhibition opened. Ideas and suggestions would be most welcome.
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In Edwardian Britain people began to venture abroad for their summer holidays. Holland was the popular destination of choice.
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The Dutch were friendly and welcoming and most of them spoke English, whereas the French, after many years battling with the British, tended to be less welcoming towards British holidaymakers. Spain and Italy were too distant for all but the wealthy. Consequently, the Dutch responded to this surge of British visitors by creating a huge market for souvenirs for the British to take home, and postcards that they could send back to their loved ones. At this time children seldom went abroad with their parents, but remained at home with their governesses, so they would receive postcards from their parents depicting Dutch children.
Nowadays, Father Christmas and Santa Claus are a more or less interchangeable festive character, typifying the spirit of good Christmas cheer.
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We have other similar depictions of Father Christmas in the mid th century from the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated Times, which show the holly-adorned merrymaker having a pretty hedonistic time. He was associated with the present-giving theme for good children much more than the English Father Christmas.
The later 19 th century started to see a blurring of distinctions between Father Christmas and Santa Claus, and the crown of holly was sometimes replaced by a hood. The vibrant red that Santa has worn exclusively since around the s was not his sole colour choice in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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Father Christmas on cards and scraps can often be found in a rainbow of colours from green to blue to violet, as well as in brown and white. Red, the colour associated with St Nicholas and a Coca-Cola advertising campaign in the early thirties , won through convincingly in the end. Left In green on a Christmas and New Year card, c. Centre In blue on a Christmas card with holly, C. Right In purple delivering presents on a postcard, Left In white on a Victorian scrap.
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Centre In brown on a Christmas card, c. Do you know how many postcards you have?
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