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MISCELLANY - Unnumbered
FRUIT

Size: 5" x 3"
Date: Undated
Lithographer: Geo. S. Harris & Sons
Original Artist: Bertha Maguire

Arbuckle - six plums on branch

Reverse(s): Factory Scene ('a'); The "Four Points" ('2a')

This image also appears in a Raphael Tuck & Sons catalog for the 1889 season. It is an example of their offering for folio No. 144, "SIX STUDIES OF FRUIT", by Bertha Maguire. (Futher details on this and other Raphael Tuck "Studies" can be found at TuckDB Catalogues.) It appears that the same designs for the other 3 Arbuckle cards in this "Fruit" grouping likely can also be found in this folio.

Whether Arbuckles' used these Tuck images as the basis for their cards, or whether both companies just used a common source, is unknown at this time.


-- image courtesy of TuckDB Catalogues