Card designed for John St Helier Lander

Date: 193?

Card size: 229 x 146 mm

Signed: E.B., lower left

Format: Folded sheet of cream wove paper

Caption: Lander of Mac Shlancy?

Notes: This is a lithographic drawing of John St Helier Lander, a portrait painter, mentor and friend of Blampied. Lander lived in the Boltons, South Kensington in London in the 1930s, a few streets away from Edmund and Marianne. Thanks to Mary Houlgrave Lander for the copy of the card.

Christmas card design from the 1930s?

Date: 193?

Card size: 153 x 115 mm

Signed: Blampied, lower left

Format: Torn piece of cream laid paper

Notes: This Christmas design is on a piece of paper bought in an auction lot containing other cards sent by Edmund or John Blampied to Philip Youngman Carter and his wife, Margery Allingham. These cards are shown here. The writing at the bottom is probably that of John Blampied.

Birthday card design from the 1930s?

Date: 193?

Card size: 111 x 225 mm

Signed: Blam, on waist of leading marcher

Format: Thin glossy card

Notes: This design was sent to Dorothy Nicolson on her birthday by Jack Blampied in March 1950. Thanks to Celia and Cilla Irvin for the image of this card.

Christmas card celebrating the centenary of Victor Hugo's arrival in Jersey (EB-OC2)

Date: 1952

Card size: 147 x 214 mm

Signed: Blampied, centre left

Format: Folded piece of cream card.

Notes: This Christmas card was designed for the French Consul in Jersey, M. Piot and his wife, to celebrate the centenary of the arrival of Victor Hugo in Jersey in August 1852. He lived on the Island for 3 years. He was expelled from Jersey in 1855 and moved to Guernsey where he lived for 18 years.

Christmas Greetings (EB-OC4)

Date: 1964?

Card size: 125 x 154 mm

Signed: Blampied 1964, lower right

Format: Folded printed card

Notes: This design for a card, which I think Blampied used in 1964, was printed for an unknown agency, as I only have the front. On the reverse is the printed greeting in Jè'rrias: Auve les Miyeu' Souhaits pure Nové et la Nouvelle Anneé. Below is written the title, 'AU REVOIR', and 'From a drawing by Edmund Blampied, R.B.A.'

I have the printing block for this card EB-CC64 (see here), which was owned by Marianne Blampied. I think that she may have lent it for use to print this card.

Christmas card from Marianne Blampied (EB-OC5)

Date: 197?

Card size: 94 x 139 mm

Signed: no

Format: Folded piece of printed paper

Notes: The drawing on this card was used for a Christmas card sent by Marianne Blampied (1887-1986).