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Cut and Fold Envelopes
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of Cut and Fold Envelopes.Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

This page is incomplete at present since information on this topic was not initially being recorded.

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1887

'Le Travail Manuel a L'ecole Primaire' by M. Coste et J. Lapassade, which was published by Lafon, Vve Ribaut et Tonnet in Pau and A Jeande in Paris in 1887 explains how to cut an envelope from an oblong.

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1914

'El Trabajo Manual en la Escuela' by Félix Martí Alpera, which was published by Libreria de los Sucesores de Hernando in Madrid in 1914, explains how to create an envelope from a Rhombus

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1936

The same design appears as 'Sobre para cartas' in 'El Plegado de Papel: 4th Cuaderno de Trabajos Manuales', which was published anonymously by J Ortiz in Madrid around 1936.

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The same work contains a second design for a 'Bolsa para impresos'.

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