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Victorian New Year's greeting postcard featuring gnomes, intended to wish recipients good luck, wealth, and prosperity for the coming year. Two gnomes are depicted. One, with a green hat and white beard, sits on a crescent moon covered in ice, holding bags of money. The other gnome, wearing a red hat, stands below in the snow, reaching up towards the gnome on the moon. The scene is a snowy landscape with a small house and bare trees in the background. Small stars are visible in the sky. The bottom of the postcard features the text, "A Happy New Year."
January 4, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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Vintage Card; A Happy New Year, illustration of kittens in basket of flowers.
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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A vintage French New Year's postcard from the early 1900s,m. The illustration depicts four young children, dressed in festive attire or white outfits, sitting amongst several miniature evergreen trees, some of which are covered in a light dusting of "snow". Each child is holding a lit candle, The arched border is lined with green foliage. The text at the bottom of the card reads, Bonne Année., in red lettering.
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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Happy New Year. #GothicAdvent
Clock set at midnight, January 1 Greeting, images of Tomte/ gnomes, vintage postcard.
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Two fungi men; one with a toadstool cap, one with a brown cap are roasting one another with a glass of red wine, border of blue flowers and four leaf clover, cream background, ‘Bonne Année’, vintage New Year card.
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Snowy owl perched on rock, mountain in background, snow is falling, owl is holding a stamped envelope in its beak which says, ‘To my friend, with best wish’ The card also says, ‘His note is sweet because, you see, The note’s a New Year wish from me’ *A bird is known by his note, and a man by his talk. Vintage New Years card.
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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A Happy NEW YEAR to you! Illustration of two monkeys in a cage, one is teasing the other with a piece of straw, the cage floor is covered with straw. There is a plant outside the cage.
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A vintage German New Year's postcard. A small figure in white winter attire is seated on a blue sled, holding reins for the pigs. a red-and-white fly agaric mushroom man, holding a four-leaf clover. The blue sled is being pulled across the snow by four small pigs, which are traditional symbols of good luck A black bird with red shoes and beak stands in the foreground. German text at the bottom reads, "Glückliche Fahrt in's neue Jahr!", which translates to "Happy ride into the new year!".
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Man in bed being attacked by a giant Christmas pudding with a face, his nose is red, presumably from drinking too much. Merry Christmas! Victorian Christmas card.
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🖼️ Edward Gorey
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A figure with a prominent nose, dressed in a dark coat, is stood in the wicker basket of a hot air balloon. The basket is filled with several large, brightly wrapped presents with red ribbons. The balloon itself has a patterned fabric envelope with gold and red accents. Two winged figures, resembling angels, are flying in the swirling clouds; one reaches toward the balloon, while a smaller figure is visible in the lower right. Illustration.
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Victorian Christmas card; three street musicians are actively playing instruments (a flute, a drum, and a violin) in what appears to be a street setting. From an open window above, a man in a nightcap and nightshirt is pouring a large jug of water directly onto the head of the central drummer. An older woman is observing the scene from inside the window. A street lamp is visible next to the violinist, and a small dog sits near his feet. Inscription: The text at the bottom of the card reads, "Wishing You A Jolly Christmas."
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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🖼️ Cats’ Christmas Party, Louis Wain.
Louis Wain, titled Cats' Christmas Party or A Kitten's Christmas Party The scene depicts numerous cats gathered for a festive celebration around a decorated Christmas tree. Cats are seen pulling Christmas crackers, with one cracker exploding near the bottom left. Many cats are wearing festive clothing or accessories, such as hats, collars, and a skirt. Cats are dancing, playing games, and generally reveling in the holiday merriment. The gathering takes place indoors, with a large, decorated Christmas tree dominating the left side of the image. Painting.
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Victorian Christmas card of a scene of a magic lantern show. A man on the left is operating a magic lantern behind a red curtain. He is projecting an image onto a large circular screen. A group of seven small children are seated on a bench with their backs to the viewer, watching the projected image intently. The image projected is a shadow-like figure of a large bird, possibly a goose, in mid-motion being chased by a man with a large knife. A small framed sign in the upper left corner contains the text: "THE BEST WISHES OF THE SEASON TO YOU".
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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St. Michael’s Church at Christmas Time, Hernhill, Kent, England
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December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Amazing Yule Goat costume by Nymla.

I think it’s the Christmas jumper that really makes it!

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December 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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1/3 The Norse believed that when the Wild Hunt, led by Odin, rode during #WinterSolstice, his horse Sleipnir would drip foam onto the earth.
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The Wild Chase - 1889 This painting was done the year Hitler was born and the resemblance of Wotan, or Odin, leading the hunt is remarkable. There was a rumor that Von Stuck had predicted the rise of ...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Victorian Christmas card with punch bowl and glasses, one robin is floating on his back in the bowl, one is perched on the bowl drinking from on of the glasses, one is flat on his back to the side of the punch bowl with a broken glass beside him, there is a black cat watching in the background and a cut lemon beside the punch bowl. Under the image it says, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
December 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Victorian Christmas cards, cats in dresses and swathed in napkins sit around a table in a dining room with paintings on the wall, a cat at the head of the table, sat on a stool, has a mouse in its jaws, on the table are plates and a large knife. ‘* A HEARTY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! *’ Round your table may there be every kind of jollity • Marred by no "cat"astrophe. *’
December 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Ignorance and Want are two symbolic children Scrooge is forced to look at in A Christmas Carol, forcing him to see his wilful distain of the poor and his ignorance of the unfairness of society. Quite a few people today should learn the same lesson
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The Spirit of Christmas Present in a green robe unveils two impoverished and malnourished urchin children
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Victorian Christmas card, a pudding with a face sits in the centre of a Christmas table with a crown of holly and glasses of wine on either side, he has flames around him. In front of the table, a cat sits on a stool playing a fiddle whilst two fish dance with a bottle of wine that has arms and legs, to the right, two rabbits dance.
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres"

Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
Line drawing of a room full of people in uproar, falling over each other, and running to escape through a door and up some stairs from a sheet-shrouded apparition on the right holding a candle. Behind the being a boy can be seen holding it up on a wooden pole.
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Victorian Christmas card labelled Indigestion, A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! A man lies on the floor attacked by angry geese and a Christmas pudding with a grumpy face.
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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‘Miss Holly on meeting the. Mistletoe, boys, Gave them a taste of the Tango's sweet joys Every Good Wish For Christmas’ Victorian Christmas card illustrated with wooded, snowy scene with holly dancers with red berry heads and faces - one large and two small with three mistletoe ‘men’ watching, two are sitting, one is standing with a monocle; similarly they have foliage bodies and white berry heads and faces. A tree in the immediate background has eyes and brows and a hollow for a mouth and looks suitably disturbed.
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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May all jollity Lighten your CHRISTMAS hours. Victorian Christmas card, snowy ground with birds marching in a line carrying torches.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Victorian Christmas card, cream background, illustration of candle with face decoration in tree, its ringing a bell, next to a biscuit decoration, Merry Christmas.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM