This Christmas card looks a bit like a college graduation announcement, with that circular image and the old English font, but in fact it is a Christmas greeting. The picture features a small house set back in the woods, surrounded by snow. The greeting is: To greet you with all kind thoughts / and good …
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, …
It’s that time of year again, people are thinking of sending out their Christmas and holiday greeting cards, as people have been doing for the last century or so. I have a wonderful collection to share with you, the best yet! This particular card is about the size of a business card, features embossed holly …
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