A Vintage Cradle Roll Certificate

Good morning.


In my recent search for paper ephemera, I found this piece on Etsy. I ended up buying it only because it was so beautiful and I had never seen one before.


From what I could find on Google, a cradle roll certificate is, and was, presented to the parents of an infant to establish that the child was a member of the Cradle Roll, composed of a group of children from birth to two years old, too young for Sunday School but important members of the church family nevertheless. I have my own Christening/Baptism certificate, but I had never seen a cradle roll certificate before. Not all faiths use them.

I received this from an Etsy shop that has an 

amazing amount of goodies for collage and

assemblage artists.

She even threw in the beautiful rose cigarette cards

and Arm & Hammer bird advertising card

as a bonus.

Not to mention a lovely photo holder.

Did you know that cigarette cards are a 

collector's item in their own right? 

That they were enclosed with cigarettes

as freebies back in the day is amazing!

They came in various series and many were

so beautiful...

 

Oops, I digressed.

Back to the cradle roll certificate.

The image is so beautiful...

 

It would make a lovely banner for a blog

(my blog, maybe).

Kathryn Louise,

I hope that you had 

(or are still having) a wonderful life

and kept God in your heart...

 

So, the cradle roll certificate, 

along with a few vintage checks and receipts 

that I showed you in an earlier post

came packaged so sweetly in this vintage bag

closed up with Washi tape

and tied with lovely shades of seam binding...

  

and came from one of my favorite sellers on Etsy.

You can find her here.

Go ahead. 

Pour yourself a cuppa and take a while to browse her shop.

I defy you to window shop and not want to buy at least

five things.

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Have you purchased any cool things lately for your own art endeavors?

 Thanks for coming by.