Victorian Halloween Greeting Card - Jack O'Lantern Figures

The proportions here are catastrophically wrong—a smaller pumpkin-headed figure in a blue coat kneels before a larger seated pumpkin-person wearing a red skirt, white apron, and green top, grinning with the unhinged enthusiasm of someone who has absolutely lost their gourd. Whatever courtship ritual or deeply weird power dynamic is unfolding involves a black cat lurking in the background as the only witness. The greeting card's cheerful gold script—'Best Wishes for All Hallowe'en'—suggests that Victorian-era Americans looked at two jack-o-lanterns apparently doing some kind of proposal scene and thought, yes, this is exactly the energy we want to send Aunt Mildred.