Soon after this event I took my samples up to the warehouse in Wood Street. Wooley Saunders - there was a very nice chap - was most interested and said, “Now I will show you how to make your things look doubly purchasable.”

He took hold of the little painted birds and butterflies and baskets off flowers and pinned them onto square pieces of paper.

“Now,” he said, “You number them and keep the numbers in a book. Get your husband to buy a rubber stamp and stamp them with a name. You must call them something. Just talk it over and I’ll give you a good order.”  

 I did keep this up during the war as we could not pop over to Paris like we did as all that was a closed concern.

Well, I went home and Frank mounted all my things and priced them. Birds two inches long were two shillings and sixpence each - butterflies so much - and so on. I think Frank got a rubber stamp and called my things ‘Tintoretto’.

They all sparkled and glittered and really looked marvellous. Frank took them to Mr Saunders and bought back an order for £25 - delivery as soon as possible.

This went on and on year in, year out.