This vintage magazine advertisement for Ferry’s Seeds claims that “If you buy Ferry’s Seeds your garden may be a collection of finest specimens” for the seeds were thoroughbred, “true to type and of tested vitality and productiveness”. The ad includes a lovely illustration of a Victorian lady, on a cobblestone path in her garden, carrying…
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Pansies Clip Art
This lovely vintage floral illustration features a cluster of three pansies. One is light yellow with a purple center, the second is dark yellow with a rust-colored center and the third is a vivid purple with a deep purple center. Click on image to enlarge. The image is from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by…
Victorian Flower Girl ~ Free Vintage Postcard Image
This lovely vintage postcard image features a Victorian girl in a white dress and yellow straw hat. She is spilling a basket of beautiful flowers as she walks along a path of grass. Perhaps she is a flower girl at a wedding. The message on the bottom of the card is: To the One I…
English Pansy French Seed Packet Label ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a vintage French seed label that features a lovely illustration of purple and yellow pansies. The description on the label is: Pensee Anglaise a Grande Fleur Variee. This type of vintage seed label would have been pasted on a seed packet or jar of seeds for retail sale. Click on image to enlarge.
Cluster of Pansies ~ Free Vintage Image
This lovely vintage image includes a cluster of pansies and a rustic cottage in the distance. The old picture is from a book of poetry titled Gems from Holmes, 1904. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Victorian Calling Card Blue Pansy
Here is a Victorian calling card that includes an illustration of a hand holding a pretty blue pansy and the message Sincerely Thine written in the decoration on the wrist. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Pretty Cluster of Pansies
This pretty corner cluster of pansies is an image from the book Heart’s ease from Phillips Brooks, 1909. Click on image to enlarge.
Pansies Vintage Image
This is a second pretty vintage image of a pair of pansies from the small book of poetry titled, Heart’s ease from Phillips Brooks, 1909. Click on image to enlarge.
Pansies Vintage Image
This pretty pair of pansies is from a small book of poetry titled, Heart’s ease from Phillips Brooks, 1909. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Bouquet of Pansies
This gorgeous bouquet of pansies comes from an antique book of poetry that was published in 1909. I removed the writing from this page and cleaned up the image but left it a little aged looking because it’s so soft and pretty like this. Click on image to enlarge.
Birds and Flowers Victorian Card
After my blog post about finding a bird’s nest in my hanging basket of flowers, my thought was to find you something to do with birds. I went through a couple boxes of my vintage ephemera and found this Victorian trading card, that not only has illustrations of birds – but flowers too. Unfortunately, the back of the…
Giant Pansies Vintage Magazine Ad
This vintage magazine ad for giant pansies is from the March 1909 issue of McCall’s Magazine, from my personal collection. Click on the image to enlarge.
