Posted by Adam Quinan on June 01, 2007 at 12:34:59 from 74.103.34.126 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Kerwallop...& visiting cards posted by Peter H on June 01, 2007 at 10:19:05:
Peter H: wrote:To my knowledge, this sort of flummery had largely disappeared from all except the grandest houses by the 1930s - World War 1 put paid to all that. It is just possible, of course, that the old social practices persisted in Harrogate . . .
And in British India, my grandparents (on both sides) were there and knew all about the etiquette of leaving visiting cards in 1930s India. I found a small engraved metal plate for printing my grandmother's cards a few years ago when I was going through my father's house after he died.