Most people treat old holiday mail like clutter, but a surprising number of antique Christmas cards are edging into serious collectible territory. The right mix of age, artwork, and condition can turn ...

Take a look at how artists celebrated the holidays — by creating greeting cards that truly were first edition works of art. An exhibit of some 200 of these cards by Northwest artists now can be seen ...

Antique Christmas postcards are an affordable collectible favored by many collectors. The practice of collecting postcards of all types is called "deltiology," and those who collect consider the years ...

EDMONDS — A 21st-century holiday tradition at Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds has returned — an exhibition of Christmas cards by noted Northwest artists and designers of the 20th century. On display ...

You may have heard Alabama was the first U.S. state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836, but do you know where the first holiday card was created? While creating a photo gallery of vintage ...

Since 1843, Christmas cards have been a medium through which we reach out to distant family and friends at the holidays. When Sir Henry Cole and his artist friend John Horsley decided to put the new ...

You’ll think you’ve surely gone astray, wandering off course from the holiday blur of Union Square, into the bland lobby of an office building at 312 Sutter St. and up a mysterious yet equally ...

Forty antique Christmas cards are on display at Memorial University in St. John's and hundreds more are in the university's archives. An archivist at memorial, Linda White, said the antique Christmas ...

From amorous couples beneath the mistletoe to women dreaming of a night of passion, these vintage Christmas cards depict decidedly raunchy festive scenes. The cards, designed by Donald McGill between ...

If you have a shoebox of old holiday mail stashed away, you might be sitting on more than just nostalgia. Antique Christmas cards have become a surprisingly hot corner of the collectibles world, and ...