Embossed, hand-painted pheasant card.
[London: Dobbs of London, circa 1830]. Single sheet of stiff card, hand-cut, oblong oval (11 x 14 cm.), embossed with the publisher's name on the lower left. A superb late Georgian embossed paper pheasant with hand painted watercolor detailing. This beautiful embossed paper pheasant was produced plain in the 1820-30 period by Dobbs of London who were a firm of embossers, print publishers and "ornamental stationers to the King". The.....