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Condition:
Antique pre-owned condition with noticeable variation. Cards exhibit toning, staining, foxing, creases, edge wear, corner wear, small tears and other age-related handling. One Christmas card is heavily creased. Several have handwritten names or dates on the backs. Please examine all photographs carefully for individual condition.
Description:
Mixed lot of 12 antique Catholic holy cards and religious remembrance cards, primarily featuring monochrome or black & white religious artwork.
The lot includes:
* Three variations of “My Jesus, Are You There?”
* Two matching Nativity cards numbered 274, reading “A Child is born to us, and a son is given to us”
* St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
* “Jesus Divine Child, Come and Conquer My Soul”
* Sacred Heart vision
* “The Crucifixion”
* “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” Nativity scene
* Sorrowful Virgin Mary image after Carlo Dolci
* Portrait of Jesus
Several cards have significant historical and devotional information on their backs, including:
* 1914 ordination and First Holy Mass remembrance for the Rt. Rev. Peter J. Muldoon and Edward Joseph Fleege
* Two matching 1919 First Holy Mass remembrance cards from St. Mary’s Church in Dubuque, Iowa
* 1924 Certificate of Membership in the Saint Joseph’s Union
* St. Vincent’s Union membership information
* Handwritten 1926 name and date
* Two “May the Christ Child Bless You With a Happy Christmas” cards from Father Smith
Visible maker or publisher markings include D.S. Co., W.P. Co., W.J.H. Co., L.B.R. and the Woolverton Printing Company of Cedar Falls, Iowa.
An appealing collection of early Catholic ephemera suitable for religious-card collectors, church-history researchers, genealogy, display, journaling or paper crafts. Sold together as one lot.
