Children's Greeting Cards: Collecting Vintage

by Linda McPherson

This book will take you on a trip down memory lane. Remember those cards your mother saved when you were born? Collecting Vintage Children's Greeting Cards begins with those first baby cards and takes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574324659
• ISBN13: 9781574324655
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Collector Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"

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I don't collect these cards but I do collect books about popular visual culture and for my interest Linda McPherson's title is a treat. Each page has been four and eight cards (though mostly four) so I guess there might be about a thousand throughout the book. I think the Contents with eighteen sections probably covers every type of greeting for children. What's left out is most likely in Miscellaneous with six sections including four cards with a real button on the front, ten cut to irregular shapes, five that had playable records. The Holiday Season provides a rich selection with thirty-four Santa cards, nineteen with Frosty the Snowman, seventeen for Rudolph and thirty-five general Christmas and snow themes. The chapter on Characters shows that the card companies don't miss a trick with Popeye, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Dagwood and a fascinating thirteen Campbell's Soup kids on can-shaped cards. Though they are not cards in the conventional sense the Hallmark Dolls from the Land of Make Believe are pure enchantment and the most valuable in the book ($8 to $45 each) I was a bit disappointed that there isn't a bit more about the leading card companies from past decades, their most popular greeting cards for children, print runs and more. The actual Introduction is on two pages and is a rather generalized overview of card collecting. The book's design and printing is fine and so much better than similar collector books put out by Schiffer. Each card is captioned with a date, size, sometimes the publisher and finally the rough price variation. Linda McPherson has edited a book mainly for collectors but I think its good enough to be enjoyed by anyone who wants to see some lovely examples of greeting card nostalgia and you might have the thrill of seeing a card that was sent to you back then. ***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.

An Absolutely Lovely Book

I bought this book after I accidentally threw away the last valentine card my late father gave me in 1967,I was absolutely heartbroken.Since I would probably never be able to ever find that card ever again I decided to purchase this book as the same artist who designed my old card was featured in it.It truly is a lovely book, the artists really took great care in designing greeting cards back then (1930s-60s), which you can't say for the cards of today. :(