A HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 156  73 327
 

 
Same bookmark, but still attached to original backing paper with earliest embossed Stevens logo
 
Image of country house, and poem to Christmas

Words:

A
HAPPY
CHRISTMAS  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
image of snow covered house
with gate and path leading
to front door,
and robin sat
on the gate post.
 
 
 
 

DEAR CHRISTMAS DAYS,
 HOW FAIR YE SEEM,
 CALM, HOLY AND SUBLIME.
 FOOT PRINTS OF ANGELS,
 HOW YE GLEAM
 ALONG THE PATH OF TIME.
 FOOT PRINTS WHEREON
 SWEET HEART-FLOWERS BLOW,
 BY WORLDLY STORMS UNRIVEN,
 THAT WE MAY MARK
 THEM AS THEY GO,
 AND FIND OUR WAY TO
 HEAVEN.

 

Size of Silk:
14.0cm long by 3.8cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:
Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end, together with a Diamond Registration mark:

This design was registered on 1 August 1871 (Number 254390)

Stevens logo and diamond registration mark on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark
Stevens name and diamond registration mark woven on the
reverse pointed end of this bookmark
 
 
 
 
DAY:
1
   
BUNDLE:
3
 
YEAR:
A
{1871}
 
 
MONTH:
R
{August}
 
 
 
 
   

The image above is of the bookmark still attached to the original supporting backing card that would have given protection to the silk bookmark. The Stevens logo was embossed into the paper, and can be just made out in the image.

 



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