London Necropolis

City of the dead

Mourning Cards

Mourning cards after the 1900s were generally sent out after a funeral had taken place, to inform friends and family of the death.
You can read more about the cards here at the Ephemera Society website.

I recently found some mourning cards at Greenwich Market - hidden in a pile of postcards and I thought it would be interesting to show them here.

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