Edwardian Christmas Card with Yellow Automobile & Mistletoe

The decorators seem to be thinking that if you wanted to convey 'the holidays are here,' a single mustard-yellow automobile absolutely buried under an avalanche of mistletoe is obviously the move, because apparently one sprig wasn't going to cut it this year. The enormous red bow cascading over the open-top seats suggests someone either wrapped the entire car as a gift or is engaged in the world's most aggressive kissing-related power move. Copyright 1908, which tracks — this is peak Edwardian 'we just invented the automobile and also we cannot stop decorating it' energy, and the loopy cursive greeting 'Joy be thine' delivers the additional bonus of sounding like a mild legal threat.