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The UK-based Charities Advisory Trust used to give out an annual "Scrooge Award" to the cards that return the smallest percentage to the charities they claim to support [20] although it is not universally well received by the Christmas card producers. [21] The RSPB produced the first ever charity Christmas card in 1898, selling 4,500 that year [22]
The world's first commercially produced Christmas card, made by artist John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843. From 1837 to 1840, he worked as an assistant to Rowland Hill and played a key role in the introduction of the Penny Post. He is sometimes credited with the design of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black. [3]
Dixon was a keen photographer, and in 1937 he produced his first Christmas cards. Initially, he was producing postcards under contract for W. J. Nigh & Sons Ltd , Ventnor , Isle of Wight. From 1937 (evidenced by a postmark on a colour tinted photo card of Shanklin Old Village) he was producing postcards on his own account.
2020: Sussexes share new family photo from California on Christmas card. In honour of their first Christmas in the United States and Harry’s first holiday since stepping down from the royal ...
Like this poignant wartime Christmas card from the then Princess Elizabeth, sent in 1942. There's the tilt of the cap, the young face, looking into an unknown future.
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John Callcott Horsley RA (29 January 1817 – 18 October 1903) was a British academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook .
The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", much like that of the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843. [167] The custom of sending them has become popular among a wide cross-section of people with the emergence of the modern trend towards exchanging E-cards .