Artwork : ArchiveNo00095

Birthday Book 1885

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Contributor Name	Marjorie Burton
Contributor Image	No_00095-6_Marjorie.jpg
Profession
Location	Cosham
Collection Date	22.02.08 12.55pm
Artefact Name	Birthday Book
Artefact Description	An illustrated birthday book with quotations from Longfellow. Printed in London, Peacock, Mansfield and Britton, 18 Salisbury Square. Leather-bound and gold on paper.
Artefact Date	1885
Artefact Stored	By my chair, in sitting room.
Artefact Form
Artefact Image	Birthday_Book_2.jpg
Sample Taken	Paper from the bind
Sample Image
History of Artefact	It belonged to Marjorie’s mother. Family and friends birthdays are listed.
Historian
Previous Owners	Mother
Special Memories	‘I realise from looking in here that people didn’t live very long. Today people seem to live forever!’ ‘I wouldn’t want to part with this book. I am sentimental about some things but other things just make me feel that it’s the past and it’s gone’.
Artwork Image	00095_Final.jpg

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jpg	Birthday_Book_2.jpg	manage	45.6 K
jpg	No_00095-6_Marjorie.jpg	manage	41.0 K