Victorian christmas cards

At Christmas, what better use of the internet is there than to share some hilariously creepy Christmas card art? Terrify your children with these classics.

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…

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…

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!

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Victorian Christmas cards and trade cards

This item is an **Instant Digital Download** No physical item will be shipped. *Each image in my shop is unique and one-of-a-kind. These images are not available anywhere else.* This kit has 25 images of nostalgic Victorian Christmas images for you to use in your journals, card making, scrap booking, or crafting. AI generated images. What you will receive: 5 zip folders Each folder has multiple printable pages with one image on each page. 8.5 inch x 11 inch NOTE: No papers are mailed to you…

The unusual adverts from yesteryear show how far Christmas campaigns have come. Gruesome images include cherubs riding bats (top right), a tree on fire (centre), and a gun advertised as a safe present.

Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards but in Victorian times it was all par for the course.