Improvements in Decorative, Attractive, and Amusing Out Out Groups of Figures for Home Decorations, Show Cards, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
Improvements in Decorative, Attractive, and Amusing Out Out
Groups of Figures for Home Decorations, Show Cards, and
the like.
We, ADOLPH TUCK, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons, of 72 and 73
Coleman Street in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, and WILLIAM
HENRY ELLAM, of 11 Foulsen Road, Upper Tooting, in the County of Surrey,
Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to an amusing novelty of figures cut out in cardboard or
the like arranged so as to be self supporting, or to support each other, combined
with a small minor by which that side of one of the figures which is turned away
from the observer is rendered visible or partly visible to him in the glass facing it.
According to our invention the figures to be represented are printed preferably
n colours, on cardboard, or like material, and are cut, or punched out, in shape and
manner to contespond with the printed figure or figues, the ugure observable in
the glass being printed on both sides Two or more figures may form one group
and are placed vis à vis and joined together by uniting bands of the card on which
they are printed, or by bands stuck on or attached to the two figures and preferably
so arranged as to fold or lie flat between the two figures when so required, so that
the two may he closely and flatly for package and storage and so that when the
figures are drawn apart, within the limits allowed by the bands, they will if placed
upught on a table or the like, support each other the erect position with one of
them faciug, and the other with its back towards the observer.
The figures, or groups of figues may be variously arranged, but we usually make
one of them considerably larger, or taller, than the other, and attach to such larger
figure, or the side facing the smaller one, a mutor, preferably of thin silvered glass,
such wise that it appears to be held, or supported by such figure, or to form
part thereof together with, or without, the representation of a frame, or other
mounting, or the like, and so that the reflection of the smaller figure, or its face, or
the part thereof intended to be reflected, may be seen the em
When such a group of two, or more, uguies is placed upright on a table, or the
like a person looking at it sees the face of the larger figuie and the back of the
smaller one, and also, in the mio attached to the larger figure, the reflection of
the face or otherwise of the smaller figure, and we prefer to use designs of such
character that the reflection in the noi, seen together with the two hgures,
presents a pleasing of amusing of grotesque, or otherwise interesting combination
Dated the 4th day of October 1894.

page_text: Improvements in Decorative, Attractive, and Amusing Cut Out
Groups of Figures for Home Decorations, Show Cards, and
the like.
We, ADOLPH TUCK, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons, of 72 and 73
Coleman Street in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, and WILLIAM
HENRY ELLAM of 11 Foulser Road, Upper Tooting, in the County of Surrey,
Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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Our invention relates to an amusing novelty of figures cut out in cardboard, or
the like, arranged so as to be self supporting, or to support each other, combined
with a small inirior by which that side of one of the figures, which is turned away
from the observer, is rendered visible, or partly visible, to him in the glass facing it.
Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein
Fig. 1, is a representation of some figures made and arranged in accordance with
our invention. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3, is a plan
thereof.
According to our invention the figues to be represented, such as those marked A
ant B, are printed, preferably in colours, on cardboard, or like material, and are
cut or punched out, in shape and manner to correspond with the punted figure, or
figures, the figure B, observable in the glass C, being printed on both sides. Two
or more figuies may form one group and are placed is a 1, and Jomed together
by uniting bands d of the card on which they are printed, or by bands stuck on, or
attached to the two figures, and preferably so arranged as to fold, or lie flat
between the two figures, when so requned, so that the two may he closely and
flatly for package and storage, and so that when the figures are drawn apart,
within the limits allowed by the bands d they will, if placed upright on a table, or
the like, support each other in the erect position with one of them facing, and the
other with its back towards the observer.
The figures, or groups of figures, may be variously arranged, but we usually make
one of them A, considerably large, or taller, than the other B, and attach to such
larger figue, or the side facing the smaller one, a mirror C, preferably of thin
silvered glass, in such wise that it appears to be held, or supported by such figure,
or to form part thereof together with, or without, the representation of a hame e,
or other mounting, or the like, and so that the reflection of the smaller figure B, or
its face, or the part thereof intended to be reflected, may be seen therein
When such a group of two, or more, figures, is placed upright on a table, or the
like, a person looking at it seca the face of the larger figure A, and the back of the
smaller one B, and also, in the mirror Cattached to the large figure, the reflection
of the face, or otherwise of the smaller figure, and we prefer to use designs of such
character that the reflection in the muroi, scen together with the two hgures,
presents a pleasing, or amusing, or grotesque, or otherwise interesting combination.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The improvements in decorative, attinctive and amusing cut out groups of
figures for home decorations, show cards and the like substantially as hetembefore
described.
2. Cut out groups of figures arranged with a mirror placed as described so na to
show an otherwise unseen part of the device substantially in the manner described
and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 3. Cut out groups of figures arranged substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3,
supporting a mirror, such as C, by which the reverse, or faither side, of the
figure B is rendered visible by reflection to a person facing the same substantially
as shown and described.
Dated this 27th day of June 1895.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.