Eight repeated Beech Tree Fairy cards on one sheet – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Eight repeated Beech Tree Fairy cards on one sheet, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Eight repeated Beech Tree Fairy cards on one sheet
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Eight copies of the same Beech Tree Fairy card share one sheet, which suggests they were printed in a batch and meant to be cut apart and sold or sent individually. Fairies like this one were a staple of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century greeting and scrap cards, where sentimental illustration blended with folklore about spirits living in woods and trees. Beech trees appear often in English legend and nature writing, so a fairy linked to one would have felt familiar to the buyers of such cards. Looking closely at the repeated figure shows how printers used one design many times over.
| Original scan | 600 × 800 px |
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| Reference | Beech Tree Fairy Labels |
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