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The Dark Veinlet
Pictures by Louis Prang & Co.
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An orange and black butterfly rests on a sprig of pink blossoms in this 1862 colour plate by Louis Prang & Co., with a wish for the happiest of birthdays and a year of lovely surprises. Prang, the Boston printer who gave America its first Christmas cards, started out making small colour cards of butterflies and flowers. For anyone with a birthday coming up.
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Inside, it says
Sending you the happiest of birthdays and a year of lovely surprises.
On the back
Louis Prang (1824-1909), the Boston printer who / gave America its first Christmas cards, began / with little colour cards of butterflies and flowers.
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