1914 Hearty Christmas Greetings Postcard Girl Snow Birds Trees Embossed For Sale
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1914 Hearty Christmas Greetings Postcard Girl Snow Birds Trees Embossed:
$10.00
Color illustrated Christmas postcard featuring a young girl in a red winter coat standing in a snowy landscape among evergreen trees. Three small birds appear near a red-berried branch at lower right. The front greeting reads:
“Hearty Christmas Greetings.”
The winter scene combines several popular early Christmas postcard motifs: a child in winter clothing, snow-covered countryside, evergreen trees, birds, and seasonal red berries.
The card isembossed, with raised impressions of the foliage, figure, and decorative elements clearly visible on the reverse.
The reverse is marked:
PRINTED IN GERMANY
and carries the identifying number:
M.S.i.B. 983
A small maker’s emblem also appears near the lower left. The card does not clearly spell out a publisher name, so no additional publisher attribution is made.
The postcard has adivided backand was mailed. The postal cancellation is clearly dated:
St. Louis, Missouri
December 22, 1914
The original postage stamp is no longer present; residue/paper disturbance is visible in the stamp area.
Postcard Details- Holiday: Christmas
- Greeting: “Hearty Christmas Greetings”
- Subject: Young girl in red winter coat
- Additional imagery: Snow, evergreen trees, birds, red berries
- Date: Postmarked December 22, 1914
- Postmark location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Country of manufacture: Germany
- Number: M.S.i.B. 983
- Back: Divided
- Embossed: Yes
- Postal use: Used
- Writing: Handwritten message and address
- Stamp: No longer present
- Postmark: Present
- Publisher: Not clearly identified by name
This is acolor illustrated embossed Christmas postcardfrom theGolden Age / early 20th-century postcard period. It is not a Real Photo Postcard, linen card, or chrome postcard.
The German manufacture, divided back, strong embossing, seasonal illustration, and verified1914 postmarkfirmly place it within the early postcard era. The exact color-printing process is not identified on the card, so no more specific method is assigned.
Historical / Collector InterestGerman manufacturers produced many elaborate embossed greeting postcards for the American market during the early 1900s. Christmas cards commonly featured children, snowy landscapes, evergreen trees, birds, and winter greenery.
This card may appeal to collectors of:
- Christmas postcards
- 1914 postcards
- Children in winter scenes
- Snow and evergreen imagery
- Bird postcards
- Embossed postcards
- German-made postcards
- St. Louis, Missouri postal history
- Golden Age greeting cards
The combination ofa clearly dated 1914 postmark, German manufacture, embossing, winter child imagery, birds, and snowy evergreen landscapegives the card several distinct areas of collector interest.
ConditionPre-owned postcard with noticeable age and postal handling wear. Visible condition includescorner and edge wear, creasing including a prominent crease near the upper left, toning/discoloration, spotting or staining, surface wear, and handwritten correspondence on the reverse. The original postage stamp is missing, with residue or paper disturbance remaining in the stamp area. The embossing remains clearly visible.
Please review all photographs carefully as they are part of the description.Use ’s magnifier/zoom featureto inspect the postcard closely for edge wear, corners, creases, bends, surface scratches or scuffs, writing, stains, discoloration, paper loss, album residue, stamp-area damage, postal markings, embossing wear, and any other imperfections that may not be immediately apparent in the full-size images.
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