Grant Family 1928 Christmas card

A Plainman's Creed

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front cover of Grant 1928 Christmas card, with words of good wishes etc. with Alderman & Mrs Grant name

inside pages of this 1928 Grant Christmas card, with motto on one leaf and silk on the other

Printed on card:-

With Every Good Wish for a Happy Christmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year from Alderman & Mrs W. H. Grant
Foleshill House, Great Heath, Coventry.		Xmas, 1928.

Printed on inside of card cover:-

I sent my Soul through the invisible,
Some letter of the After-Life to spell;
And by and by my Soul returned to me,
And answered " I myself am Heaven and Hell. "
Omar Khayyam

Woven on silk:-

A PLAINMAN'S
. . . CREED

I WASTE NO THOUGHT ON  .  .  .  .
  .  .  .  MY NEIGHBOR'S BIRTH
OR THE WAY HE MAKES HIS PRAYER
I GRANT HIM A WHITE MAN'S  .  .  .
  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  ROOM ON EARTH
IF HIS GAME IS ONLY SQUARE.
WHILE HE PLAYS IT STRAIGHT  .
  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  I'LL CALL HIM MATE,
IF HE CHEATS I'LL DROP HIM FLAT:
OLD CLASS AND RANK  .  .  .  .  .
  .  .  .  .  .  .  ARE A WORN OUT LIE,
FOR ALL CLEAN MEN  .  .  .  .  .  .
  .  .  .  .  .  ARE AS GOOD AS I ~
AND A KING IS ONLY THAT.


Size:	card (when closed): 11.4cm wide by 15.9cm deep silk: 8.6cm wide by 12.1cm deep
Comments:	This 1928 Christmas card comprises a folded card, with the Christmas and New Year's greeting printed on the front cover. Alderman & Mrs Grant's name is also printed on the front cover. Inside to card, there is a motto printed on the left hand leaf, with the silk attached to the right hand leaf, with a proper mount over the top. Inspirational words of A PLAINMAN'S CREED are woven onto the silk. The rear cover is plain. The card is from Alderman & Mrs W.H. Grant, the same address used on all their Christmas cards from 1921 until 1930.

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