Victorian Turkey Thanksgiving Greeting Card | Vintage Chromolithograph

Is that stringy thing between the turkeys what we think it is? Two dark-feathered turkeys face off in what can only be described as the world's most passive-aggressive Thanksgiving standoff, their fleshy pink-red heads nearly touching as one appears to be pulling or holding something stringy between them — because apparently beak-to-beak confrontation is how you express 'grateful harvest'. Behind them, a bucolic scene of hay shocks and a distant farmhouse cheerfully ignores the diplomatic crisis unfolding in the foreground. The artist clearly received the brief — 'Thanksgiving Day card' — and thought, 'yes, but what if the turkeys were having a *moment*.' The script lettering at the top reads 'Thanksgiving Day' with the breezy optimism of someone who absolutely did not notice what they were sending to grandma.