Hand-colored wedding postcard reading Voeux de Bonheur – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This vintage postcard of Hand-colored wedding postcard reading Voeux de Bonheur brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Hand-colored wedding postcard reading Voeux de Bonheur
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Lead with what sets this card apart: its French inscription, "Voeux de Bonheur," which translates roughly as "wishes of happiness," and its hand-applied color. Cards like this were popular in Europe and North America in the early twentieth century, when printed postcards were a cheap, quick way to send sentiment across distances. Many were printed in black and white and colored by hand, often by women working in small workshops or in factories that employed large numbers of them. Cupid, shown here as a symbol of romantic love, was a familiar motif on these greetings, and the combination of text and decoration reflects how people marked engagements and marriages in writing. Notice the care taken with the coloring, which gives the card a warmth that mass-printed images often lacked.
| Original scan | 600 × 894 px |
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| Reference | Img28 |
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