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Christmas greeting card with holly, Waltham, England, 1915

Subjects
Christmas & SantaGeneral Greetings
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1915 (White Border)
Front of Christmas greeting card with holly, Waltham, England, 1915, Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Yorkshire, England, c. 1915 lithograph postcard
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Back of Christmas greeting card with holly, Waltham, England, 1915, Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Yorkshire, England, c. 1915 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

Just to write you all the Xmas greetings and wish you all the best. Love from all at home. It Emily

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
PostmarkedWaltham, December 4, 1915
Stamp
Addressed to
Mr. & Mrs. J. [illegible]

Baugar House South Bank, Yorkshire England

Postcard record

Postmarked, Waltham
PublisherInter-Art Co.
SeriesNo. 1175. "XMAS GREETING" Series.
ConditionGood
Place addressedMr. & Mrs. J. [illegible], Baugar House, South Bank, Yorkshire, England
PublisherInter-Art Co., London, England
Stamp½d King George V, perforated on all sides
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, Waltham, England, 1915, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/christmas-greeting-card-with-holly-waltham-england-1915. Accessed November 2, 2026.