Friday, December 21, 2012

Nostalgia: Vintage Christmas Card Countdown No. 6, Santa's on the Line


Vintage Christmas Card Countdown No. 6, Santa's on the Line

This unusual postcard shows Santa on a candlestick phone and captures a glimpse of our technology and communication future.  Based on the telephone style and Santa's rosy cheeks and jolly glance, I am dating it to the early 1920s as this is the rare "unsent" postcard with no postmarks or messages to mark its exact place in time.

The greeting is a wonderful little verse, that I feel is still true no matter how fast and often technology lets us travel or connect:

From here to there's an awful ways,
Measured by miles and nights and days,
Yet Christmas always brings you near--
The season's best to you my dear.

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