Tuesday 16 December 2014

DAY 5: 12 DAYS OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS

It's Day 5 of '12 Days of Victorian Christmas Cards' and today I give you a Victorian novelty card. This is a 'trick' card of the type that was extremely popular in the 1870s and 1880s. It tapped in to the Victorians' love of ingenuity and invention.


Copyright Michelle Higgs
What can you see in this landscape? Scroll down for a clue.
















View the card sideways!








The reverse is printed with the message: 'In this landscape you can trace a jolly Father Christmas face.'

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