![Raphael Tuck & Sons' : sheets of Relief Scrap Pictures : catalogue and samples book : Raphael Tuck & Sons' Ltd. : London : nd [c.1953] : pages 3 & 4](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54501180678_dd785ef0f7_m.jpg)
For many years, from Victorian times up into the mid-Twentieth Century, a popular pastime was the collection of relief scraps that depicted a wide range of subjects, with the object of creating your own scenes built up from scraps in a scrapbook. One of the many printers of scuh relief scraps was the well-known London based art printers of Raphael Tuck & Sons, noted for colour tracts, booklets and postcards and whose premises were bombed out with total loss in the Blitz of December 1940. They recovered to issue carry on issuing such publications and these scraps are, in many ways, clever items of relief printing.
The bound folder acts as a catalogue and includes sample sheets; these include the circus (Series R6) and a relatively modern take on British Railways
(Series R19). What helps date the catalogue is the mention of the Queen's Coronation in 1953 and the inclusion of samples of Coronation relief scraps (Series R10) that show various officials and flunkies.
