Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch & Acrostic Poem
Text on Card
HALLOWE'EN Write on the Shells of two Walnuts the Names Of Two of your Sweethearts and throw in the Flames The Shell that Cracks first is your Lovers Name Be good to Him and Date he'll Proclaim
Description
A young girl and a whimsical witch face share this charming Edwardian-era Halloween greeting card, the girl illustrated in a diamond-shaped frame sporting reddish hair with a bow, a green cape/shawl, a blue skirt with a bat emblem, and a white apron while holding a basket (containing nuts, not jack-o'-lanterns) and a bare branch, standing over a small fire/flames, and surrounded by flying bats. The card includes a verse using the letters W-R-I-T-E to begin an acrostic-style romantic Halloween fortune-telling greeting, with a whimsical witch face illustration in a red diamond presiding from the upper right corner.
Subjects
girl in costume, halloween, bats, nuts/walnuts, acrostic poem, witch face in diamond, festive fortune-telling, campfire/flames
Printing Notes
Hand-colored lithographic detail with embossed elements and decorative diamond-shaped borders. Gold and metallic accents suggest holiday printing techniques of the period.
