Two rosy-cheeked children — a girl in a fur coat and blue beret, a boy in a brown cap — trudge through fresh snow past a grand yellow townhouse, arms full of holly and wrapped gifts, while a third child peeks curiously from an upstairs balcony window: this charming Belgian Christmas card, printed in France by M.D. Paris (Série 3450), captures the warmth of mid-century holiday tradition in a snow-dusted neighborhood scene painted in the soft, saturated palette typical of late 1940s French-printed greeting cards. The card was posted from Harelbeke (Haregem postmark visible) in the Belgian province of West Flanders, sent by Frans to Achiel at 65 Rollegen, carried on a Belgian 20-centime Lion Rampant stamp. The greeting "Vrolijk Kerstfeest" — Merry Christmas in Dutch/Flemish — places this squarely in Flemish Belgium, and the intimate sender-recipient dynamic (a personal name on the reverse, a hand-addressed street) gives it genuine human warmth beyond mere decoration.