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In Loving Memory of the Miners who Lost their Lives in the Terrible Pit Disaster at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, South Wales, October, 1913, printed paper napkin, with vignette of a colliery above four poetic verses, with title top and bottom, somewhat spotted and creased, 1" closed tear to lower left corner (just touching border), 36 x 36cm (14.25 x 14.25ins), together with another similar, commemorating a visit by George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Newport and Cardiff in 1937, plus a small quantity of advertising and other miscellaneous ephemera, including two Bruton, Knowles, & Co. auction catalogues, both for the same sale held at Bell Hotel Assembly Room in Gloucester on July 9th 1879, each with various manuscript annotations, three unused Vere Foster's Drawing Copy Books (Horses, Song Birds, Marine Subjects, latter defective), a Mazawattee Atlas of the World, a Souvenir de France padded silk handkerchief case containing two hankies, an OXO advertising booklet Paint the A.B.C. of Health & Fitness, two Convent Garden programmes for 1911, a chromolithographed concertina booklet showing children dressed in costume through the ages, and a number of small unused envelopes, various sizes and condition Commemorative and souvenir napkins are, by their very nature, fragile ephemeral items, and those commemorating disasters were inevitably produced in smaller numbers than those printed as souvenirs to mark happy events. (-)