Format: One dried gum leaf, three lithograph cards with lineblock, one letterpress and lineblock card, one lineblock and process screen card, five annotated and one dated in ink, sizes range from 6.5 x 11.5cm to 17 x 11.5cm.
1. Dried gumleaf with a string through, annotated “Christmas greetings. Xmas 1918.”
2. Lithograph and letterpress, with the Australian coat of arms in raised gold stamp. Text reads “A greeting from Temora. In the land of the wallaby. To greet you at Christmas wish all good wishes for a bright and happy season.” Annotation reads “To you both, from Ern & Annie.”
3. Laid-down pair of colour lithographs with letterpress and raised gold stamp. Front image titled “Loading Hay”. Interior image shows a girl with two donkeys alongside a letterpress Christmas message and annotation “To Mother”.
4. Letterpress with the shape of Australia in raised gold stamp. Text includes “With golden wishes for Xmas. This nugget of gold from a far off land, bears greetings sincere from Australia’s strand.”
5. Colour lithograph with letterpress and process screen image of Town Hall, Sydney. Text includes “Christmas Bells. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.”
6. Lineblock and process screen, with raised gold stamp of Australia and a cannon of cover. Text includes “Our Brigade’s Greetings. A merry Xmas, bright New Year, To all our folks and friends at home. S.W.H. Published by the Yandoo Management.” Illustration by Lin Browne.
Minor foxing and creases, one with some insect damage and split to fold.
