Weird christmas cards

Today, you will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You know what, scratch that. We’re experiencing the present, and the future is too unpredictable. Let’s just focus on the past!

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…

LOBSTER PARADE 1905 CHRISTMAS postcard from

Some cards were drawn faster than others, I think.

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