FESTIVALS : NEW YEAR

Title: A Jolly New Year to you
Object Name: Card
Maker: W Habelberg (Primary maker)
Place Made: Germany: Berlin
Berlin
Description: New Year postcard with illustration of four monkeys playing billiards. Verse carries Darwinian overtones; 'The scientist asserts as 'twere on oath, man's but a monkey or rather say the cue. The monkey is a man my dear friend like you I won't make game be yours the winning stroke my merry greeting may you take the joke.' Reverse is plain with message in ink; 'From Edmund.'
Materials: Card
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.2012.240

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