Christmas Postcards: A Collector's Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780764326899)

Experience warm wishes and happy remembrances of Christmas through postcards, rural carrier cards, and business trade cards organized chronologically from the 1880s through the 1920s. Over 740 beautiful and charming color images show how Christmas sentiments, card designs, and that right jolly old elf Santa himself changed with the times. The engaging text provides a brief history of postcard production, a discussion of Santa's enduring image, key postcard artists and publishers, and valuations for postcards. This is an essential volume for postcard collectors and all who love the Christmas season.

Author: Robert M. Reed
ISBN-10: 0764326899
ISBN-13: 9780764326899
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d