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Postcard c1910 Happy Yule Tide Christmas Winter Scene Printed Germany
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Pre-linen · 1912

Postcard c1910 Happy Yule Tide Christmas Winter Scene Printed Germany

Germany (printed)1912Pre-linenFair-Good

A quietly elegant Edwardian Christmas greeting in soft ivory tones: a small inset photographic-style vignette of a snow-blanketed Germanic manor house — half-timbered gables, towering firs, tiny sledding figures on the slope — anchors the top of the card, while a delicately illustrated candlelit Christmas tree with wrapped gifts nestles in the lower right corner. The words "A Happy Yule Tide" are set in a graceful Arts-and-Crafts typeface that perfectly captures the aesthetic sensibility of the era. On the reverse, Nellie and Mack inscribed the card simply "With love" and addressed it to "Brother," a touching family keepsake. Printed in Germany during the golden age of chromolithographic postcard production, this unused-feeling card retains lovely color saturation despite light surface wear.

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PC-04819 · Unknown (German, shield trademark)
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