A taste of Christmas Past!

[JenB]

Here's a couple more. I do have more but I think I'd better stop now as I am digressing from Carol's topic.

[Treetotal]

Aren't they lovely...I love the ones withe the pocket and card, are any of them from Family Jen? I have a huge old postcard collection but no silk or embroidered ones.
Carol

[a-l]

Thank you Jen they are beautiful. I wish I had some.

[JenB]

They were all passed down from my grandmother, but sadly I have no idea who sent them.

I can't resist posting the last two.

The second one is made from cut-out paper. There are three separate sections - the centre containing the words, the small area surrounding it, and the outer, more elaborate, surround. Each of these three components are mounted on paper 'hinges' of differing length (the longest on the outer section well over an inch long less than an inch long on the innermost section) so that when they are all extended you are looking through two frames into the message set deep in the centre (very difficult to describe  )

[ms_canuck]

The attached Christmas card was sent to my Mum by my Dad who was stationed in Palestine (with the RAF) in WW2 - there is no date on the card.  My parents were married on 7 Oct 1944 and Mum said that he was recalled shortly after that - they were actually on their honeymoon when the orders came. 

When the card is closed, the Air Force symbol shows thru the cutout on the front.  I'm a scrapbooker, so the card is safely kept in one of my family albums.

Ms_C

[ms_canuck]

File was too large, so here is the other side of the card in my previous message.

[Treetotal]

How lovely....you are lucky to have them. Thanks for sharing...I was hoping that someone else would share their old cards 
Carol

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I have a collection of greetings cards which were saved by my great aunt in the early years of the 20th cent. They are mostly Christmas cards, though many are not what we would call "Christmassy". Also, they are all quite small. The one pictured has fascinated me since I first saw it. It opens out, though not far - hence my hand holding it. I am surprised it came out so well, as I was holding the camera with one hand! (Swallows were a favourite motif.)

[Treetotal]

Wow...love that one...they don't make them like that anymore...thanks for sharing.
Carol