This vintage Christmas postcard features a head and shoulders illustration of a beautiful lady. She is wearing a large fluffy hat with off-white colored plumes over a wide brown brim. The lady is also wearing a brown furry scarf that is draped over her right shoulder. A single pink rose is to her left. The…
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Vintage New Year Postcard
This vintage New Year postcard features an illustration of four leaf clovers clustered together with a wishbone. A peaceful scenic view framed by a scalloped design is to the right of the four leaf clovers. A strip of red ribbon runs diagonally on the left and the right of the message on the card. The…
A Joyous Christmas Victorian Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card titled A Joyous Christmas features an illustration of an elegantly dressed Victorian couple arriving to the front entrance of a house. It appears they are arriving for a visit, or perhaps a Christmas party. A lady, in a fancy Victorian dress, has opened the front door to welcome the couple…
The Birds Christmas Tree Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard titled The Birds Christmas Tree features an illustration of a few birds, including a blue jay, perched on a small Christmas tree directly outside a house window. Several more birds are enjoying bird food set out for them on the wooden platform supporting the birds Christmas tree. Two children, a boy and…
Vintage Christmas Advertisements
Here are three vintage Christmas advertisements. Each of the vintage magazine ads promotes products to be purchased as Christmas gifts. The first ad is for Appleton’s Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare, issued in 12 artistic volumes, bound in half-morocco with gilt tops, uncut edges, and a gallery of illustrations of famous Shakespearean players reproduced in photogravure. In 1897,…
Sparrows Christmas Tree Vintage Story
The following vintage school book pages tell an interesting story of The Sparrows Christmas Tree. The lesson tells of worms eating the leaves of shade trees in several parks in the great city of New York. Sparrows were brought from overseas to control the worms. Bessie was a young girl who lived with her family…
Victorian Christmas Advertising Cards Jewelers
Here are two beautifully designed Victorian Christmas advertising cards. The cards were created for the Christmas season, for Wait Bros. Jewelers of Ravenna, Ohio. Each of the cards features a lovely floral cluster of roses and daisies on a light grayish blue background. Both cards include the wording: Merry Christmas, Compliments of Wait Bros., Jewelers,…
Vintage Christmas Postcards
Here are two vintage Christmas postcards. The first postcard features a simple but beautiful illustration of a snowy country scene with barren trees in the foreground and snow-covered buildings in the background. To the right of this scenic view is the message, “The seasons’ greeting of love and good cheer”. A small, vivid red poinsettia…
Holly and Mistletoe Vintage Christmas Designs
This vintage magazine article features a Christmas tea cozy decorated with holly and mistletoe designs. The article was submitted by a reader named Harriet Ogden Morison. Harriet explains in her article that a properly made tea cozy is almost an essential to the properly made cup of tea, and no Christmas present could be more…
Art Deco Christmas Greeting Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an art deco design that includes a colorful top border with triangular shapes, pine cones and candles. The left hand side of the card is decorated with branches of holly and berries and a lit candle on a fireplace mantle. There is a pot of food cooking over a…
Vintage Puppy in Stocking Christmas Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an illustration of a bright red stocking with a green and white plaid toe and heel and yellow jingle bells sewn to the top front. The stocking is filled with an assortment of toys and candies and an adorable, happy, little puppy dog. The message on the inside of…
Vintage Christmas Children with Gifts
his vintage postcard features an illustration of two small children, a boy and a girl, both still in their white nighties, on Christmas morning. The girl has received the gift of a new doll in a red dress that she is cradling in her arms while she watches her brother take a toy pocket watch…
