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Title: New Year 1908
Object Name: postcard
Description: New Year postcard, 1908 with a motif of a spider's web and blue and red floral heart shaped floral wreath. In gilt letters; 'Wishing you a Happy New Year.' Reverse of card is addressed to Miss Murdock, Belfast. Card printed in Germany with a postal stamp from Princeton, 1908, US postage stamp.
Materials: card
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.2015.453

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