Thursday, August 30, 2012

early Christmas cards featuring cats

For some reason cats were a popular motif on early Christmas cards. I don't understand, but really the early Christmas cards did not have explicitly Christmas themes. You were as likely to get daisies as mistletoe for example, so I guess the Christmas cats aren't really out of place.











Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Santa and Prince Albert

Nothing says Christmas (and cancer) like Santa delivering Prince Albert tobacco.