Buds Collection

Rosa Padre, a hybrid tea rose of the Rosaceae family. Seen here in close-up, showing two bright pink flowers and a bud

Banjo with pink flowers on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

White lilies and dragonfly on a Christmas card
White lilies and a dragonfly on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink and blue flowers on a New Year card
Pink roses and blue forgetmenots on a New Year card. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Flowers, cherubs and crosses on an Easter card
Flowers, cherubs and crosses on a three-part Easter card. Date: circa 1890s

Low mallow, Malva pusilla
Low mallow or round-leaved mallow, Malva pusilla. Malva rotundifolia, Linn. 969. La mauve sauvage. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier

Victorian Calendar, March, Flowers are Budding. circa 1888

Music cover, Mon Amour Waltz, by P Bucalossi. Date: late 19th century

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, variegated pansies. Date: late 19th century

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, basket of flowers
Artwork by Florence Auerbach, basket of variegated flowers. Date: late 19th century

Fan with yellow roses on a birthday postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a circular greetings card
Pink roses and rosebuds on a circular greetings card with a butterfly in the middle, a white lacy edging and two tab pulls. circa 1890s

Assorted flowers on a circular greetings card with a butterfly in the middle and two tab pulls. circa 1890s

Wedding Cake Date: 1935

Rose Basket Cake Date: 1935

Chocolate box design, three red roses
Chocolate box design, featuring three red roses. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, four pink roses
Chocolate box design, featuring four pink roses. Date: 20th century

HANDY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Every well-stocked household should have handy packs of matches, safety pins, once- use stocking pencils, etc. Date: 1930s

Filming the Holy Thorn at Kingsthorn, Herefordshire - and the buds which came into bloom around Midnight, Old Christmas Eve (January 5th)

Assorted flowers on a cross-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, engraved by Stadler after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

A male Chaffinch
A male chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), perched on a shrub in bud. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Pink roses on a birthday greetings card made of metal
Pink roses and buds with horseshoe on a birthday greetings card made of metal. Date: circa 1890s

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Cherub with fruit and flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Birds and flowers on a greetings card. circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a basket of pink roses. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a basket of roses
New Year card in the shape of a basket of pink and white roses. circa 1890s

Pink flowers and buds on a hand-coloured birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a Christmas card, with seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Ancient Egyptian triple lamp from Tutankhamuns tomb
An ancient Egyptian triple lamp from the tomb of Pharao Tutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC), as discovered by Howard Carter among others in 1922 in the Valley of Kings

Engraved Jacobite airtwist drinking glass, 1760 (c). The bell bowl is engraved with an open thistle and two buds and a single moth, on a double-knopped mufti-spiral airtwist stem and conical foot

White flowers on a tambourine-shaped birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Basket of roses and lily of the valley on a Victorian scrap
Basket of pink and red roses and lilies of the valley on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Pages of a booklet, Times Footsteps for 1876 -- Spring Buds for Summer Rays and Autumn Stores for Winter Days. Showing people in medieval costume. Date: 1876

Rosa Betty Uprichard, a variety of large-flowered rose of the Rosaceae family with salmon pink flowers. Seen here in close-up are three partially opened flowers

Hazel Tree Catkins
Hazel twigs with buds and catkins (corylus avellana)

Flower arrangement with pink and mauve flowers on a circular metal plate. Date: circa 1960s

Romantic greetings card with white rose
Romantic greetings card with a white rose. circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a mandolin with pink roses and a blue ribbon. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a mandolin with pink roses. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a guitar with pink roses. Date: circa 1890s

White flowers on a tambourine-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with flowers and feathers. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card with flowers and feathers. Date: circa 1890s

Spray of fuchsia on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Roses on a Victorian scrap
White, red, and pink roses on a Victorian scrap, with other flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

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