A Vintage Christmas Card - Send Your Greetings With Beautiful Christmas Cards

The very first commercially produced vintage Christmas card appeared on the market in the 19th century. Its illustration, created by John Callcott Horsely, featured the general mood of the merry season with a sketched illustration of a family, eating, drinking and being merry.

According to Wikipedia, "Official Christmas cards began with Queen Victoria in the 1840s. The British royal family's cards were generally portraits reflecting significant personal events of the year".

Vintage Christmas cards are characterised with beautiful happy scenes that tells a story with a simple natural image. Many popular images and illustrations on these old fashioned Christmas cards were of the postman.

Outfitted in red with his sack full of Christmas cards slung over his shoulder, the' Robins', as they were commonly called, delivered for the British Post Office, early on Christmas morning, in the frosty and blistering cold. Services cost about 1 shilling.

Other favoured themes, prints, photographs, designs or illustrations include:

• Flowers and other natural vegetation themes, such as trees and forests.
• Fairies and the touch of fantasy
• Fanciful designs and embroidered patterns on lace.
• Sentimental images of young children, mostly impoverished and hungry.
• Images of animals such as robin birds, dogs, cats, etc.
• Elaborate shapes and decoration materials
• Fanciful designs of the seasons, especially autumn and winter.

During the two World Wars, Christmas cards creations and themes bordered on:

• Patriotic illustrations
• Risqué humour
• Cartoon illustrations and graphics of the ‘50's.
• Nostalgic images, sentimental pictures, and religious images

And in 1953, some years after the war, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House Christmas card. The vintage cards show White House scenes as rendered by prominent American artists of the time.

Detailed designs and themes has now became unique, rare, and a 'relic of the past', and as its popularity and demand is on the rise, production of vintage cards and post card copies is evolving with changing tastes, printing techniques and eCard technologies.

Today, physical Christmas card production and demand is steadily dwindling, while giving electronic cards are now the rave.

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