Apparently the history of the greeting card goes back to Egyptian and Roman times, clearly they had a different format though. Papyrus and coins respectively and given at the start of the New Year. Greeting cards, mostly in the post card format, started to become popular in the mid to late 1800’s and were hand… Continue reading Greetings – A short history of the greeting card.
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Vintage Greeting Cards
I really do miss receiving these kind of cards. When we were kids my Mum always kept any cards we got from family or friends. The cards lived in a large plastic bag in the middle shelf in the middle cupboard of the hall way. Every so often I would drag out the bag of… Continue reading Vintage Greeting Cards