None — Birthday Greetings Telegram (Three Cards and Two Envelopes)

London, GPO, c1970. Loose Pages, Articles. Three very smart examples of this charming birthday telegram designed by British war artist and book illustrator, Edward Ardizzone. Includes three copies of this telegram card for the Post Office, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Telegram message printed and pasted to the inside of two. With a written message to the inside of the third. With two original envelopes, one of which is also illustrated with Ardizzone's drawings. Ardizzone was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. He won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal for the year's best children's book for 'Tim All Alone' (1956). This is one of several telegrams Ardizzone designed for the Post Office which are now considered collectors' items.  Three folded cards, two kept in the GPO's original illustrated envelope, and the third kept in a non-illustrated original envelope. Externally, cards are very smart, with light edge wear and faint ink impressions to the rear. Envelopes are smart. With edge wear and spots to the illustrated envelope and handling marks to the non-illustrated. Contents are bright, with the telegram messages printed and pasted to two, and written in ink to the third. Very Good . Ill.: Edward Ardizzone. Very Good .