Twitter Thread Explains The Weirdness Of Vintage Christmas Cards

We usually use Twitter to waste time on funny tweets, but every now and then it provides some serious knowledge to our weak brains. This particular thread explains the bizarre nature of old Christmas cards - and shares some seriously freaky examples. This is some serious pre-Hallmark shit. We just wish we could find these at our local stationery store.

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Text - Bixa Rabbit @RabbitThoughts When cheap postage stamps came out in the 1800s suddenly people could send Christmas Cards. Since the medium was new, the visual language didn't really exist yet. Their symbolism is all over the map and it's fantastic. #MerryChristmas #History #VisualArt

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Flower - Christmas ZADaPpy LONDON RAPHAELTUCK &SONS

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Illustration - AHAPPY C ISTNAS bea ekoe

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Art - Amerry Christmas

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Organism - WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON MERRY CHRIST MAS YOU TO

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Illustration - rmany merry ARISTMAS Gredligs

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Painting - merry mas

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Illustration - lай бийоттаs bе merry.

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Illustration - A MERRY HRISTMAS TO YOU

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Illustration - Gruß Krampus vom

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Sled - bere's for Christmas a erow corNmMr RAPALL TUGK &3

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Watercolor paint - hearty RISTAS greeting, jovial fossies a skalingwould go They had asked their mamma, but she'd sternly said, "No!" And they all came to srief in a bealtiful row here's a sweetChristmasmoral for one not too Slow ist so! WNAGELBERG ERLIN a 232

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Sea snail - ARSENT FRIENDS (NATIVES) May we Soon See them again A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU

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Umbrella - ery good wish for your

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