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Christmas greeting card with holly and inset landscape vignette, circa 1910

Subjects
Christmas & SantaGeneral Greetings
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Christmas greeting card with holly and inset landscape vignette, circa 1910, Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Yorkshire, England, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Christmas greeting card with holly and inset landscape vignette, circa 1910, Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Yorkshire, England, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A Christmas greeting card built around a raised oval frame of embossed gold scrollwork, with sprays of holly leaves and red berries at the sides and top and a small lithographed landscape vignette — a quiet river or pond with dark trees — set in a blue-bordered opening at the center. The verse, printed in blackletter type with red and blue initials, sends good wishes to an old friend at Christmas, and the greeting "A Joyful Xmas" closes the design. Cards of this embossed, verse-and-holly style were a staple of the early twentieth-century Christmas postcard trade, often sent in place of a letter to distant friends and relatives.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

thank to write you. all the season's greetings from all at [illegible] to [illegible]

PublisherInter-Art Co.
I think of you to-day old friend, And send my wishes fond, Bright hours be yours at Xmas And all the time beyond. A Joyful Xmas --- Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W.C. "XMAS GREETING" Series. No. 1175. British Manufacture. POST CARD. THIS SIDE FOR CORRESPONDENCE. THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS.
PostmarkedWaltham
Stamp
Addressed to
Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible]

South Bank, Yorkshire, England

Postcard record

PostmarkedWaltham
PublisherInter-Art Co.
ConditionGood
Place addressedMr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Baugar House, South Bank, Yorkshire
PublisherInter-Art Co., London
NotesHeavy embossed (die-stamped) oval frame and scrollwork; white border; light edge wear and slight soiling of the margins. Postmark: WALTHAM DE 15 15. Divided-back British "POST CARD." (Inter-Art Co., London, "XMAS GREETING" Series No. 1175, British Manufacture) with KGV ½d green stamp; embossed card, light edge wear, minor foxing.

Cite this card

Christmas greeting card with holly and inset landscape vignette, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/christmas-greeting-card-with-holly-and-inset-landscape-vigne. Accessed October 24, 2026.