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  • Collection: Roseliep Postcard Collection

The card depicts the snowy bank of a lake with a brilliant orange and red sunset on the far shore. Two full trees and a broken one line the bank where a lone figure is skating on the ice.

Father Christmas in an ice-covered blue hood in the upper-right hand corner. Holly leaves. In the lower-left is an frozen lake that some people are walking on, across which is a church.

In a golden canopied bed lies a figure in white with long brown hair, possibly a man or woman. Behind the bed, a priest in black and another male figure pray and speak to them. In the foreground, the pope dressed in red is seated on a chair next to…

The card is taken up by the leaves and pink blossoms of clover. The print in the upper left reads "Four Leaved Clover / Be mine."

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The card's main scene is a circular inset surrounded by holly. Below it is a blue box reading "Christmas Wishes". In the inset stand Father Christmas, on the right, and an angel, on the left. Father Christmas is dressed in red, carries a tree over…

National Santa has a pipe in his mouth and is carrying a bag of toys. There is a Christmas border around the card.

The central scene on the card is a wrought-iron fence with pink flowers in the foreground and a field with some houses in the background. There's an inset of a man in the upper left. To the right, this poem: "Sing again the song you sang / When we…

Against a varigated blue background, three jack-o-lanterns with white ghost-robes beneath them are carrying terrified black cats. Each cat has paws extended, whiskers standing on end, and eyes wide open. There are stars in the background, and a witch…

The card is a reprint of artist Jan Vermeer's "Die Kupplerin," or 'The Procuress.' A woman in yellow with a patterened rug over her lower half is seated, and three men in different outfits surround her. It has been intrepreted as a brothel scene of…

Floating above the rest of the figures is Mary in red and blue, holding the baby Jesus. They are backed by a golden sky. Around them, figures of both genders and all ages look upon them or in other directions.

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