Postcards - Sub Category Postcards And Photographs - Category

ID: 2780

Ladies Of Llangollen

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Description 🔉

An antique, late Victorian, coloured postcard features the celebrated romantic couple, the Ladies of Llangollen. The stamp on the card is franked with the date 05, indicating the year 1905. The ladies eloped from Ireland and established a home in North Wales, near the town of Llangollen. They spent all their time together, never spending a single night apart. They are buried in the churchyard of St. Collen in the town.

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  • Abbott Antiques is a small business selling antique and collectable quality items at affordable prices. We specialise in Curiosities, Religious pieces, Items of Provenance, miniature, rare and interesting items, although as a general dealer we sell a variety of items. Our belief is to encourage people in their collecting. We have many years of experience, having traded from our shop, various Antique Centres in Norfolk, selling both to local and international collectors and dealers. We offer also a 'finding service' and undertake research, at no extra cost. Personally, we collect little, although we are very fond of automata, having a small collection of such items.