IMPROVEMENTS IN CHRISTMAS AND OTHER CARDS
Year: 1884

page_text: I ISABELLA ANN SPACKMAN of 10 Mildmay Villas, Burnt Ash Hill Lee in the
County of Kent, Spinster do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN CHRISTMAS AND OTHER CARDS to be as follows:-
A hole or holes to be made in the cards to admit of a Photograph, Picture, Crest
5 Monogram, drawing or any other design being inserted in the same manner as
Photographs are inserted in Albums.
wedding, or Burial Cards.
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I ISABELLA ANN SPACKMAN of 10 Mildmay Villas, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, Kent,
Spinster do bereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR, EASTER, BIRTHDAY, WEDDING OR BURIAL CARDS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to Wedding, Christmas, New Year, Birthday, Funeral, or
other similar congratulatory or condolatory cards and it has for its object to

page_text: render such cards capable of receiving and retaining a separate or independent
picture, photograph, monogram, drawing or other design produced on or attached
to a sufficiently stiff material to enable such drawing or design to be secured to
the card, as hereafter described.
The card may be of rectangular, oval, or other form, and it would be of
ornamental appearance and bear appropriate words according to the particular
class of card to which the invention is applied. The cards according to my
invention are furnished at the rear with a pocket for the reception of the
photograph, drawing, or other design, said pocket covering an orifice in the card
of suitable shape and enabling the photograph to be transmitted by post without
liability of injury and holding the photograph &c in place opposite the opening in
the card, so as if necessary to form an integral part of the design appearing on the
surface of the card.
The card may be provided with two separate pockets with their respective
openings to enable two photographs to be attached to a single card.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I have illustrated it in
the accompanying drawings wherein figure 1 shows a face and rear view of a card
of the kind above referred to, provided with my invention and Figure 2 a section
on the line 1-1 figure 1. Figure 3 shows a face and rear view of a card with
two openings. The card a is represented in the drawings, as of rectangular shape,
but I do not limit myself in this respect. It has a through opening a¹ at which
the photograph &e appears and is furnished with a pocket b composed preferably
of thin paper gummed or otherwise secured along its edges to the card a, except
at b where the pocket is left free, so as to enable the photograph &c to be inserted
in place. The photograph, or stiff material bearing the monogram drawing or
suitable design, is attached to the card by being slid into the pocket, and, when in
place, it may be prevented from becoming detached by gumming down the edge bl
of the pocket to the card; or this edge may be left free so as to enable the
photograph to be removed and replaced by another at will.
In the case of a card for a pair of photographs &c as in figure 3, these may be
adapted to fold in the middle on the line aa² so that the photographs &c may
be protected from injury, when being transmitted by post or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
A Wedding, Christmas, New Year, Birthday, Burial or other congratulatory or
condolatory card provided with an opening and a pocket for holding an independent
photograph or design in place opposite the opening, substantially as shewn and
described.