Happy Easter 2020!
Rabbits riding coaches- enjoy š – have a good Easter š£
Read MoreTag: Vintage Greeting Card
Commerce & Christmas
christmas cards from the good old days: sent by companies to customers.
Read MoreHappy Easter!
Wishing all my readers a very happy and sunshiny Easter 2019! And I leave you with the ‘most famous’ hare (not rabbit!) on postcards..
Read MoreFeel the love 1
A confession: I never received a Valentine card before I moved to England. Valentine’s Day has only become popular (read: commercialised) in the last few decades in Germany, although cards have been printed there for much longer – here is an example from the beginning of this Century. Others have told the history of this […]
Read MoreHappy New Year!
Hope you had a good start to 2019 – and that all your hopes and wishes get fulfilled!
Read MoreWhat were they thinking?
A few curios from my collection – I wonder who came up with these ideas and who said : ‘yes, let’s go with that’. They are fun, though. A monkey-puzzle: I really don’t understand this one … I can only assume this was a gift card that came with the item.. Well, I’m looking forward […]
Read MoreAdvent
Oh, the joy of happy anticipation of Christmas! Something of a luxury these days… The time before Christmas seems to fly by now but when I was a child it seemed to take ages. Advent calendars helped pass the wait – and they were ‘just’ images. By the time chocolate ones came into fashion it […]
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