Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Witch Palette Broomstick 1900s

There's a gleeful audacity to this design that demands attention: someone looked at a painter's palette and thought, 'yes, this is the perfect vessel for Halloween nightmare fuel' — and honestly, respect. The oversized palette features two black silhouettes of women rendered directly onto its surface, while a broom handle juts up from the thumb hole at an angle that can only be described as aggressively phallic. Below it all, a cauldron bubbles dramatically over open flames, because apparently the quintessential 'charming holiday greeting' is trapped female silhouettes, an erect broom, and a boiling pot arranged in cheerful red cursive script. The artist — whose signature appears to be visible on the palette — clearly had thoughts, and those thoughts were a lot.