Hand-tinted Bonne Année postcard of a couple with flowers – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hand-tinted Bonne Année postcard of a couple with flowers comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hand-tinted Bonne Année postcard of a couple with flowers
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Tinted by hand in the Victorian manner, this postcard shows a couple posed among flowers, with the French greeting "Bonne Année" printed across it. Cards like this were sent as New Year's wishes, and the practice of mailing decorated cards for holidays and celebrations took off in Europe and America in the late 1800s, when postal rates dropped and printers began producing them in large numbers. Color was often added by hand after printing, so each card varies slightly from the next. The sentimental couples and blooming bouquets were typical of the era's taste, and they are a reminder that Valentine's-style romance was also a common theme in greetings for other occasions.
| Original scan | 504 × 806 px |
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| Reference | Img74 |
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