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VICTORIAN ERA ART
GREETING CARDS WITH ENVELOPES
SET OF FIVE

Due to many requests, we have created a Greeting Card edition of our popular Weird Victorian Postcard set!
Surprise, delight and bewilder your friends and family with these, erm, jolly and festive cards!

A set of five greeting cards, each with different weird and, let's say, unique Christmas art from the Victorian era!
Children heads in puddings, child-snatching Santas, owls on tricycles, children riding large insects - we have it all here. Spread the cheer!

- 5 different designs
- Blank inside for your own message
- Envelopes included
- 5" x 7" (12.5cm x 17.5cm) size

Silk Art print for deep vibrant colours and soft sheen finish ♥

Christmas cards originated in the 19th century in Victorian Britain. The first mass-produced cards appeared in 1843, a great invention to streamline the busy correspondence of the season by creating a fancy illustration card with a pre-printed greeting. At shilling each, they were quite out of reach for most people, but with the combination of the freshly-invented Baxter printing process (making colour printing easier and cheaper) and the "penny post" reform (making the postal cost affordable to more people), the cards finally took off to great popularity and the designs became really diverse. Quirky and bizarre scenes, funny animals and black humour seemed to be very common - unexpected topics for a Christmas cards from our modern perspective! Winter themes, snow, holly, robin birds and children (a symbol of innocence and, perhaps, pure holiday joy) were also very popular of course. But not in this set! We're going with the pure and undistilled classics here! :)

★ INDIVIDUAL CARDS ★ listings also available here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/StrandClothing?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&section_id=21798911

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