Victorian christmas cards

The most wonderful time of year? Tell that to the illustrators of the 19th century, who seemed to love nothing more than drawing scenes of violent frogs and creepy onion people

New Year's greetings from a...turnip? Potato? With...riding boots and an umbrella? Something to consider as you select holiday cards this year: in a hundred years, will someone be really perplexed by what you've picked out?

I have always had a fascination for antique postcards ~ any holiday...but the Christmas ones are quite strange indeed. From their morbidity, to the just plain strange! here are a few that have made me say... "....Hmmmm...." I mean, creepy walking root-vegetable men? or how about a kidnapping santa? this one cracks me up - just look at their little legs! a little too much eggnog perhaps? and doesn't a cat-fight outside a tenement window just scream Happy Christmastide? or would you prefer a…

Circa 1890 chromolith but could be slightly earlier.

Vintage Christmas cards capture the holiday season. These 20th-century vintage Christmas images are public domain and great for crafting or displaying.

Vintage Postcard of Kitty Cat with Krampus Doll

Digitally printed cards on heavyweight stock Uncoated blank interior provides a superior writing surface Each card comes with an envelope for mailing or gifting Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received

All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly. (Craig Kringle, Weird Xmas Podcast & ReReading Wolfe) Old cards! Anachronism! Murdering frogs and dead birds! Ho/ho/(ho)

Santa kidnapping children and murderous mice were par for the course in the Victorian‑era Christmas card tradition.

These holiday cards and postcards seemed appropriate at the time they were made.