The world’s first printed Christmas card has gone on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, just over a month before the Royal Mail deadline for posting Christmas cards in Britain
LONDON - The world’s first printed Christmas card has gone on show at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, just over a month before the Royal Mail deadline for posting Christmas cards in Britain.
Designed by Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley, the hand-colored card shows a family gathered around a table enjoying a glass of wine with a message: A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You. It was sent from a son to his parents. Of the 1,000 originally printed, 21 survived and one has been loaned to the museum by a book dealer in San Francisco.
Dickens and Cole worked at the same time, unknown to each other, shaping what would become popular traditions. Cole was instrumental in setting up the Penny Post in 1840 and imagining the first Christmas card which sold for a shilling . Today billions of Christmas cards make their way around the world.
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