Large Framed Victorian Bible Markers

I have selected these Bible markers from the collection I received from Laura Seddon whose world-famous card collection is now housed in the Manchester Metropolitan Museum who quote as follows:

“The Laura Seddon Collection contains over 32,500 greetings cards. It is one of the largest, and most comprehensive, sources for the study of 19th century greetings cards, and holds some of the earliest and rarest examples of commercial cards.

“The cards held in the collection are mainly Christmas cards but Easter, birthday, New Year, memorial, reward, and Valentines cards are also included. They range in date from the 1840s-1920s, with the majority being from the 1880s-1890s: what is known as the Golden Age of the greetings card. All the cards were collected by Laura Seddon.”

When I met Laura Seddon, she was at the point of publishing a reference book about her card collection and she kindly sent me a copy and signed it for me. It is still available through available through Amazon:

A Gallery of Greetings, Publisher Manchester Metropolitan University Library, ISBN-10, 0901276383, ISBN-13 978-0901276384.