An exceptionally fine football-themed Victorian Christmas card, with pen & ink inscription for ''Xmas 1892'', printed with verse and with a decorative
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£110
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An exceptionally fine football-themed Victorian Christmas card, with pen & ink inscription for ''Xmas 1892'', printed with verse and with a decorative colour lithograph of a boys' football match which, when held to the light, reveals a crunching challenge for the ball from a heavily embossed image printed to the reverse, that the verse ironically describes as ''a loving, warm embrace'', printed by W Hagelberg in Berlin, mounted in a perspex display stand