A Late Nineteenth Century Original Advertising Pictorial Hanging Show Card for Rippingille's Patent Stoves sub-Curios This is a pretty example

This is a pretty example

and have been used throughout history as heraldic ornaments

The magazines close connection with popular theatre meant that this extract was written in a more dramatic and poetic way than it perhaps would’ve been otherwise

which offsets the central field wonderfully well

Later painted in a lurid green

A Late Nineteenth Century Original Advertising Pictorial Hanging Show Card for Rippingille's Patent Stoves sub-Curios This is a pretty exampleOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1885 Height: 10 inches Width: 12 inches The show card, in attractively simple bold font, within a ruled border is an extract from 'Fun' magazine July 1st 1885. Fun was a Victorian weekly magazine, first published on 21 September 1861 and was founded by the actor and playwright H. J. Byron in competition with Punch magazine. It cost a penny and ceased publication in 1901. The