The Flickr Christmaspostcard Image Generatr

Who is the creepy character with a witch like face holding a baseball bat and sitting on the rocking horse???

MISCH & CO.'S "OUR CHRISTMAS TREE" SERIES No. 319 A. Designed in England.

Producer of postcards. In the 1890s, the company traded under the name Misch & Stock, printing Christmas cards. They changed their name in 1905.

Max Misch (Posen, Germany, 1852 - London, England, 1919): An English businessman of German decent, Max Misch first entered into partnership with the English publishing firm of Bernhd.Ollendorff established around 1879. Their firm, located at 53 Jewin Street, London dealt in publishing books, lithographic cards and fancy stationery goods. Other partners in this firm included Bernhard Ollendorff (the proprietor), and Siegfried Stock (c. 1859 - 1929). It seems that Bernhard Ollendorff (Germany, c. 1836 - England, c. 1901) was a relative of Max Misch, possibly an uncle. See: The Bookseller : The Newspaper of British and Foreign Literature published in (1879), and (1880), both contained advertisements for the firm of Bernhard Ollendorff, 53 Jewin Street, E. C., offering their new lithographic and chromolithographic 'Birthday, Valentine, Christmas and New Year's' card collections. In 1885, The firm was dissolved but continued to run under Bernhard Ollendorff. See: The London Gazette, page 37, January 2, 1885. Bernhard Ollendorff's firm continued to run under his management into the 1890's. See: Papers Past - Press January 1890, printed an advertisement by the H. J. Wood and Co. offering lithographic cards published by L. Prang, Sydney J. Saunders, Bernhard Ollendorff and others. The same year they left the Ollendorff firm (1885), Max Misch and Siegfried Stock went into partnership to form the new firm of Misch & Stock, Fine Art Publishers. This firm became a major English publishing company during its time. See: The American Stationer, a classified business directory, September 19, (1885), the Misch & Stock located at Jewin Street, posted an advertisement in this directory offering their latest Christmas cards. When Siegfried Stock retired in 1905, the new firm of Misch & Co., Ltd. was established by Max Misch. It was located at Golden Lane, London England. Misch & Co., Ltd. became a major publisher of lithographic, mixed media and photographic post cards, as well as other printed matter during the first part of the twentieth century. Other sources indicate that the firm was out of business by 1913, but I have yet to find a directory, register, census, news article or advertisement notifying of its demise to verify that date. LINK to the complete article - www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/misch_and_company_thete...

Sent by my godparents from Bonn (Year 2000)
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Edited by SOS Kinderdorf
Drawings by Daniela Wittman

Christmas Greetings. Postcard.

Unposted.
Divided Back.

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Vintage Christmas Postcard of a 1959 Cadillac Sedan de Ville in a Nativity setting. This was sent to me several years ago and I thought it was worth saving then and feel it is worth sharing now. I believe these were privately printed in a limited quantity. A fabulous Holiday image. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

Vintage Christmas postcard from the Stecher Lithograph Company of Rochester, New York.

1914 Embossed Vintage Postcard - A Happy Christmas - Series 333 F - holly sprigs and a winter scene.

A Christmas greeting kind and true
I send in friendship's name to you.

A short company history of the Stecher Lithographic Company is found in volume XXXV (1982) of the University of Rochester LIbrary Bulletin, in an article entitled “Nineteenth Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates” by Karl Sanford Kabelac. The article is available online at the University of Rochester‘s River Campus Libraries website, posted by the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation. The Stecher Lithographic Company. Although the focus of the article pertains to printers in the Rochester, New York area who made plates (prints) of fruits and flowers to illustrate the catalogues of the botanical offerings of local nurseries, the Stecher Lithographic Company also printed numerous postcards during the golden age of postcards. Wikipedia mentions that Frances Brundage illustrated for the Stecher Lithographic Company, although the entry does not specifically state that she illustrated postcards for Stecher, which also printed illutrated books.

This card is published and copyright by Stecher Lithographic Company, located in Rochester, New York. The small, circular Stecher logo is located in the lower left corner of the front of the post card. The logo is - a circle with a C in the middle of it with a dot in the middle of the C - another version of the logo is - It reads: STECHER LITH. CO. ROCH. N. Y. around the circumference of a circle with a C in the middle of it. Another version is a logo with a circle with a S in the middle of it.

On the reverse of this "A Happy Christmas" greetings postcard, we find out that this is Stecher’s postcard Series 333 F (lower left corner). The ‘F’ indicates that this postcard is the sixth design in series 333. In addition to being sold individually, postcards often were sold in packets, and the postcards in a thematic packet would bear the same series number, but each unique postcard design within the packet would have its own letter designation. For example, if a packet contained twelve postcards, each with a unique design, then the postcards typically would have letter designations from ‘A’ through ‘L’ following the series number. LINK - postcardiness.wordpress.com/tag/stecher-lithographic-comp...

1464 Xmas 4 Designs / Made in U.S.A.

Christmas Remembrance
Lest we forget those pleasant ways,
Those oft-remembered happy days,
I send my greetings, warm and true.
And loyal friendship's pledge to you.

Postcard won in an IG giveaway
Sent by Michelle from Taipei (Taiwan)

To all my Flickr friends

To all my Flickr friends

To all my Flickr friends

To all my Flickr friends!

To all my Flickr friends

Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

Sent by a Carmelite Missionary nun
December 2012

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime was produced by David Allen and Sons in December 1920 for the Lyceum Theatre in the Strand where:

"Boxing Day, December 26th at 2 and 7:30 and twice daily at 2 and 7:30, Lyceum Children's Fairy Pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. Strongest pantomime company in London. Box office opens daily from 10 to 9:30. Telephone 7617 nd 7618 Gerrard. Children in arms not admitted,"

There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Red Riding Hood pantomime was produced by Stafford Ltd. in December 1910 for the Lyceum Theatre in Ipswich where:

"Monday January 16th, for six nights, matinees Wednesday and Saturday, Mr. Peter Davey presents the Ipswich pantomime Red Riding Hood. The entire company and production transferred directly from the Royal County Theatre, Kingston on Thames."


There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Cinderella pantomime was produced by David Allen and Sons in December 1912 for the Princes Theatre in Shaftesbury, Avenue where twice daily at two and half past seven:

"The Princess Fairy Pantomime, Cinderella, produced by Walter and Fredrick Melville. Featuring a full pantomime company with Elise Craven as Cinderella, Jewel St Leger as The Prince, Harry Roxbury as Buttons. Also starring Venie Clements, Scott Barrie, Sims Woolley, Woodhouse & Wells and a host of others. Popular prices: Stalls 5s and 3s, Grand Circle 4s and 2s. 6p (all numbered and reserved), Pit Stalls, 2s, Pi 1s, Gallery 6p. Box Office open from 10 to 10. Telephone 5983 Gerrard."


There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Dick Whittington pantomime was produced for the Theatre Royal, Bately, where:

"For six nights, commencing January 9th, and a Matinee Saturday January 14th, Dick Whittington will be performed."

There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Sleeping Beauty pantomime was produced in December 1903 for the Theatre Royal in Bradford where:

"Pantomime Extravaganza the Sleeping Beauty will be performed at 7:15 from Boxing Day 1903 until New Year's Day 1904 and 2 o'clock Saturday matinees during the run."

There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Babes in the Wood pantomime was produced by John Waddington Ltd. in December 1924 for the Hippodrome, Margate where commencing Monday January 14th:

"George Wayne presents an original up-to-date pantomime entitled, Babes in the Wood. Once nightly at 7:45. Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:30,"

There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!

As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.

Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based and starred famous theatrical folk of the day.

This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Cinderella pantomime was produced by David Allen and Sons in December 1906 for the Broadway Theatre in New Cross, where:

"The Management have the pleasure of announcing that the Christmas Pantomime will be Cinderella, with the following Artistes: Miss Beatrice Edwards, Mr. Fred Cary, Miss Lucie Caine, the Sisters Sprightly, the Tally-Ho Trio, the Pollard Brothers and the Eight Sunrays."

There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:

"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"

That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!