Halloween greeting card with girl, teapot and jack-o'-lantern – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This vintage postcard of Halloween greeting card with girl, teapot and jack-o'-lantern brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Halloween greeting card with girl, teapot and jack-o'-lantern
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Hollywood Halloween Horrors
The Halloween Library, Volume I · by Edward Moran and James Lantos · Globe Pequot
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A girl with a teapot and a jack-o'-lantern is an unusual pairing for a Halloween card, since the teapot points to a domestic scene rather than the usual witches and black cats. Early twentieth-century American and British holiday postcards often mixed childhood figures with harvest-season props like pumpkins, and this card fits that tradition of sentimental, lightly spooky seasonal greetings. Such cards were mass-produced and mailed between family and friends, so they reveal as much about everyday holiday customs as about printing technology. Look closely at the bright colors and the stylized lettering, which show how illustrators of the period aimed to make Halloween feel cheerful rather than frightening.
| Original scan | 1,031 × 1,609 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | hallcard34 |
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