Vintage New Year Cherub Angel Sleigh Card, Victorian Era

A curly-haired winged boy with a military-style tailcoat and top hat grips a brass horn in one hand and a fishing rod in the other while sledding down a snowy hill on a wooden sled—a combination that immediately raises the question of why a creature with actual bird wings sprouting from his back would need winter transportation at all. Giftwrapped packages pile behind him as though he's simultaneously delivering presents and celebrating New Year's with smug, unhinged confidence, his expression suggesting this aerial horn-blasting, fishing chaos is perfectly reasonable and not at all a Victorian cry for help. The card is signed 'Bonne et heureuse Année,' as if wishing someone a Happy New Year via a runaway sled piloted by a flying child is a normal greeting tradition.