Vintage Thanksgiving Greeting Card with Turkey Pair, Victorian Era

The turkeys seem utterly convinced they're locked in a diplomatic negotiation, draped in American flag cosplay with tail feathers fanned out in red, white, and blue stripes, facing each other across a 'Thanksgiving Greetings' banner in what can only be described as a patriotic standoff that nobody asked for. They're positioned mirror-image to each other, chests puffed, heads low and extended forward, locked in the kind of aggressive mutual posturing that says 'I respect you AND I will destroy you.' Someone in Victorian America looked at the existential horror of Thanksgiving — a holiday literally about eating turkeys — and thought, 'You know what this needs? Turkeys. Dressed as flags. Staring each other down.' The pastoral background of green fields and a little red house sits there, completely unbothered, as two nationalist birds conduct what is either a duel or a very intense date.