Dear Little Children with Candles and Stockings Christmas Card

During the early 20th century, postcards were a most popular method of communication, with just enough room to write a little note to a friend, family member, lover or neighbor - and they were less expensive to mail. Believe it or not, as late as the 1950s, there was a different postage price for postcards, cards or letters that were tucked rather than sealed and items with sealed envelopes!

Card such as this one were so popular that millions of cards crossed through the mails.

Reproduced from an original postcard, this delightful note card features three darling children with candles have just placed their stockings - "hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."

The inside reads:


On the front, it reads: