Search

Image caption appears here

Add your deal, information or promotional text

Snowy Winter Wildlife Cards

Winter has its own feeling, and it is not the same thing as the holidays. It is quieter than that, two birds sitting close on a snowy branch, a squirrel frozen mid-leap, owls holding still while everything around them goes soft and gray. Most cards cannot get near that feeling without turning into a Christmas card.

These four scenes have an unusual origin. L. Prang and Company, the Boston printer who introduced the American Christmas card in the 1870s, pulled these as progressive proofs, test prints taken mid-process, before all the color stones were laid down. That is why the grounds read olive, why the color has that partially-realized quality, why the whole thing feels less like a reproduction and more like something still breathing. The incompleteness is the point.

The set includes 24 folded cards across 4 designs, red squirrels in snow-laden branches, two small birds at a twig nest, a pair of owls perched close together, three blue jays inside a dark fir, 6 of each, blank inside, with envelopes.

For the person who stops to look at a bird on a snowy branch, and deserves a card that already knows that about them.

Search