More Christmas mail

WHILE STILL THINKING LONGINGLY OF LAST YEAR’S POST ABOUT SOME GORGEOUS COLONIAL CARDS, here are some more Australia designed cards from the last 3 decades.

[Father Christmas opens post], produced by Merry-Go-Round Handmade, book illustration stitched on to card, 10.5 x 14.5 cm, 2013.
[Father Christmas opens post], produced by Merry-Go-Round Handmade, book illustration stitched on to card, 10.5 x 14.5 cm, 2013.

These cards are about Father Christmas and presents

'Season's greetings from Santa Claus in Australia', Mackay Photographs Australia, 12.5 x 17.5 cm. Circa 1990s.
‘Season’s greetings from Santa Claus in Australia’, Mackay Photographs Australia, 12.5 x 17.5 cm. Circa 1990s.

Here is a card that we have never been prepared to send across the seas to mark Christmas – Santa looks like he has come from outer space – he just doesn’t fit in the environment that the kangaroos are enjoying. Had this card for a while – might be from pre 1994 (the telephone number for the publisher Mackay Photographs Australia was 03 457. There was no ‘9’ starting the number and the ‘9’ was apparently introduced between 1994 and 1998.

'Strike: Xmas invaders', concept by James McGrath, needle point by Diana Cummings, produced by Cozzolino Ellett, 17.5 x 11.5 cm, 1983.
‘Strike: Xmas invaders’, concept by James McGrath, needle point by Diana Cummings, produced by Cozzolino Ellett, 17.5 x 11.5 cm, 1983.

Here is delivery by a 1980s method – space invader.

[Kewpie doll and other figurines], Cozzolino Ellett, 17 x 11.5 cm, 1998.
[Kewpie doll and other figurines], Cozzolino Ellett, 17 x 11.5 cm, 1998.
Adoration of the prezzie, by Jeff Fisher, produced by Cozzolino Hughes, 12 x 17.5 cm, 1983.
Adoration of the prezzie, by Jeff Fisher, produced by Cozzolino Hughes, 12 x 17.5 cm, 1983.

 

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  • Michael Aitken
    14 December 2014 6:26 am

    These are really great. I think I will start collecting modern Christmas cards as well

    Seasons greetings to all

    Michael

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