Victorian Christmas Cherubs with Evergreen Branches - Vintage Greeting Card

The first cherub—a rosy-cheeked angel with suspiciously adult facial features and auburn ringlets—sports a tiny white wing and a green draped garment with a heart-shaped brooch (very 'Cupid goes caroling'), while peering over a nest of evergreen branches with its mouth hanging open like it just witnessed a Christmas miracle — or a car accident. Its companion, the second cherub, rocks a pink ribbon and what can only be described as the bare-shoulder look that was apparently *fine* for angels in Victorian New York, according to the International Art Publishing Co. stamp on the left. Both lock their enormous blue eyes onto the viewer with the kind of unblinking intensity usually reserved for hostage negotiations, and the blank 'To' and 'From' lines at the bottom suggest whoever sent this simply could not improve upon the inherent threat already communicated by these two cherubs emerging from pine boughs like woodland spirits who've read your mail.