Victorian Santa Christmas Greeting Card with Lantern & Holly

A gaunt, hollow-cheeked figure in a shaggy brown coat grips a bundle of twigs in one hand and a glowing lantern in the other, crowned with a wreath of holly berries like some kind of festive Druid who lost a bet. This is Pre-Corporate Santa, a woodland cryptid who raises the question of whether he's delivering gifts or leading a torch-lit mob. That sidelong, slightly haunted glare — combined with the floppy red tasseled cap drooping off his skull like it's trying to escape — suggests a man who has seen things, terrible things, and has decided to deal with them by wandering through a snowstorm alone with a broom.