The First Ever Christmas Card (1843) Hand-colored lithographed card, triptych depicting a family gathered around a dinner table toasting the recipient in the center , London: [Joseph Cundall for] Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, [December 1843]. Lightly soiled, creased across upper right corner, in custom cloth folding box.“While Germany can claim credit for the custom of the Christmas tree, the prize for the first Christmas card goes to England”(Elliott, Inventing Christmas, p. 85). The first Christmas card, one of 20 or 21 known to exist. This card signed by its creator, artist John Calcott Horsley and dated 1843 Item #250365       Price: $35,000.00 source:  http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/250365/henry-pseud-ldquo-felix-summerly-rdquo-cole/a-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-to-you What a charitable price tag. You can read more about this Victorian card at the Victoria & Albert website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1170/print-of-the-month-2165/

The First Ever Christmas Card (1843)

Hand-colored lithographed card, triptych depicting a family gathered around a dinner table toasting the recipient in the center , London: [Joseph Cundall for] Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, [December 1843]. Lightly soiled, creased across upper right corner, in custom cloth folding box.

“While Germany can claim credit for the custom of the Christmas tree, the prize for the first Christmas card goes to England”(Elliott, Inventing Christmas, p. 85). The first Christmas card, one of 20 or 21 known to exist. This card signed by its creator, artist John Calcott Horsley and dated 1843 

Item #250365       Price: $35,000.00

source: 

http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/250365/henry-pseud-ldquo-felix-summerly-rdquo-cole/a-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-to-you

What a charitable price tag.

You can read more about this Victorian card at the Victoria & Albert website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1170/print-of-the-month-2165/