Greeting card see-saw puppies on a high

Produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons c.1900, ‘Puppies Playtime’ is one of a pair of greeting card see-saws that sold for £140 in the book and ephemera section of a December 15 sale held by Lacy Scott & Knight (20% buyer’s premium).

Extracted from Learn Antiques Gazette | Ian McKay

‘Puppies Playtime’ is one of a pair of greeting card see-saws that sold for £140 at Lacy Scott & Knight.

Each was around 11in (28cm) wide, and the other card featured a gathering of four fancily dressed bears in ‘Bruins Party’, but both had verses by Clifton Bingham and operating instructions printed on the back.

A second such lot, one in which the two card see-saws featured ‘The Merry Makers’, a group of children dressed as clowns, and the ‘Kit-Kat Family’, sold at £130.