Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint

Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint

Patience, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Standard Theatre, New York, advertising, trade cards

Four trade cards depicting characters from Patience and quotes from the opera: Bunthorne ("In a rapt ecstatic way"), Jane ("I am soulfully intense), Grosvenor ("A very daisy") and Saphir (How earnestly precious"). Each has overprint in advertising box "Standard Theatre | R. D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. | in Patience."

David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection

1881

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Stock advertising trade cards with advertising box

3.2.6

each 2-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches