Mrs Frank Smith sent this to some friends. The card has a gold border around the edge and the center is embossed to frame the image and text. The illustration is lovely, a basket of poinsettias and a bird on a vine. The greeting reads: With Best Christmas Wishes / Just a Merry Christmas / …
This card is a 1/4 sheet size, so 4″ x 5.5″. It is embossed in the center to frame the greeting, and the illustration is also embossed as well as inked in blue and silver. The sentiment reads: Sincere Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year it was signed Mr & Mrs F. and …
This card, about 2 1/2″ by 4″ is embossed with the image of a candle lantern embellished with silver metallic ink. The text reads: May Christmas joys be yours / and happiness attend you / throughout the coming year It was not signed.
Here is a greeting sent to Geo & Mollie from Hett. The text is as follows: Accept these season’s greetings, in the good old fashioned way, I wish you joy and happiness, on this Christmas Day It appears as though this is also an arts & crafts influenced greeting card similar to the one by …
This little card is a postcard greeting, published by the J. Raymond Howe Company of Chicago, IL. In my research I discovered this company was active between 1904-1914 or so, and is considered one of the early arts & crafts card publishers. Arts & crafts publishers used images influenced by the arts & crafts movement, …
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