Christmas card

Comin' thro' the rye

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gc 800-cc	925a	No Postcards listed by Sprake	listed

postcard with man and woman walking through a field of rye, with title words and verse of song with music

Woven on Silk:-
Comin' thro' the RYE

[image of man and woman walking through the rye]

music and words:

GIN A BO-DY MEET A BO-DY, COMIN THRO THE RYE,
GIN A BO-DY GREET A BO-DY, NEED A BO-DY CRY?
IL-KA LASSIE HAS HER LADDIE NE'ER A ANE HAE I; BUT
A' THE LADS THEY SMILE AT ME, WHEN COMIN' THRO' THE RYE.

WOVEN IN PURE SILK
W. H. GRANT & Co.		COVENTRY

Printed on card insert:-

Make new friends, but keep the old
One is silver, the other is gold

With Sincere Wishes

for

Christmas and the New Year

From

{space for name}


Size:	card: cm wide by cm deep silk: cm wide by cm deep
Comments:	This Christmas card comprises a folded card, with a postcard type front, with insert silk of Comin' thro' the Rye, with a plain back. Inserted into the card, and held in place by a silk ribbon and bow, is a folded paper with printing on the two inside faces. The folded paper allowed different printing, and the version above relates to the printing employed when the card was sold to the general public.

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