Mourning Cover? (With Silver Border)

Is this considered to be a form of a mourning cover? I have a couple with the deep black borders that are a given, but this one has a silver border, which also extends to all of the seams on the reverse which I find to be a bit different:



Interestingly, the envelope is embossed on the inside of the flap "Tiffany & Co. Makers New York."

That is an attractive cover! I am afraid I don't know much about mourning covers though.

It's more likely a wedding invitation.

My guess as well.

Thanks for the comments. Maybe it was a wedding invitation envelope. That could explain why Tiffany & Co. was embossed on it.

For whatever it's worth, here is the reverse of that same cover and the embossed Tiffany imprint:

With respect, I disagree.

Tiffany and Co, Makers, were Sterling Silver Artisans,
this cover would enclose correspondence from head
office, the silver bordering, a nice little touch
in vogue with their image.

Tiffany & Co. currently produces wedding envelopes and the Tiffany envelope is a style of envelope used commonly for wedding invitations. One would have to do more research, but they probably have been producing the same style of envelope for quite awhile since it's now copied by many other stationery companies.

The company has been selling stationery since the late 1830's:
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/comp...History.html

Thanks. The wedding invitation envelope seems most likely. The Tiffany & Co. embossed name sort of clinched it for me.

In the 1970's or so, the mourning covers from Holland that I received had black, purple or silver edgings-- they were trying to do away with the unfashionable black borders! I would think that other Western European countries did the same.

It's ironic the subject of this post came up again. Since my last post, I found another cover that is addressed to the same individual while in France during WWI, some 13 years earlier (1917):



Although the postmark is weak on the front, it is clearer on the back and in this case it does show a monogram of the sender. (It also has the Tiffany & Co. marking):



These are similar covers, I know, but NOT from the same printing, as the first one I posted did not have the return address monogram.