[Victorian London trade cards and musical ephemera.] Two calling cards and a compliments card of Bluthner & Co., Victorian 'Pianoforte Manufacturers'. [The three printed by Cheney & Sons of Banbury.]

The three items are in good condition, lightly-aged. The layout, design and typeface of the two calling cards is entirely different, although the text of both reads 'Bluthner & Co., | Pianoforte Manufacturers, | 7 to 10, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London W.' Items Two and Three (the second calling card and the compliments card) are in the same typeface, but are of different design. ONE: Printed in red, with grey-green strips at head and foot, on one side of a 9 x 12 cm piece of white card. TWO: Printed in blue, with green triangles at the corners, on one side of a piece of 8 x 11.5 cm white card. THREE: Printed in brown on white 7.5 x 11 cm card. The firm's crest in the top left-hand corner, and the text reading: 'With | Blüthner & Co.'s | Compliments and Thanks | 7 to 13, Wigmore Street, | Cavendish Square, | London W.' The printers' details are not given, but the two items come from the archive of Cheney & Sons, 'General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury'. (John Cheney's calling card describes him as a 'Printer in Gold, Silver, and Colours', with 'Specialities in the best class of work.') For more about the firm see 'John Cheney and his descendants, printers in Banbury since 1767' (1936) and the Victoria County History volume for the County of Oxford, Banbury Hundred.