Twitter User Brings Vintage Christmas Stamps Back Into The Limelight

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AmyBrown
Nov 23, 2019 1:00 PM EST

Thank you Twitter user, @RabbitThoughts, for bringing these...interesting stamps back into the limelight. 

We're really torn on how we feel about these vintage Christmas stamps from the 1800s.

On one hand, they're super strange and just the weirdest...

But on the other hand, they're amazing and hilarious and we have this urge to go out into the world and collect these stamps. 

One thing we do know for sure, we're in love with that one abominable snowman/ Snow-covered Cousin It, from the Addams Family.

How do you feel about them? 

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    Text - Twin Rabbit @RabbitThoughts When cheap postage stamps came out in the 1800s suddenly people could send Christmas Cards. Since the medium was new, the visual language didn't really exist yet. Their symbolism is all over the map and it's fantastic. #MerryChristmas #History #VisualArt be nerry nny mалу merry ARAS Gredlings 12:15 AM Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Web App
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    Illustration - A MERRY HRISTMAS TO YOU Alamy Stock Photo
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    Insect - y sietmeas be merry
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    Art - merry Xipas GSA CO
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    Illustration - Wat many merry ARISTMAS Gredlings
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    Text - Twin Rabbit RabbitThoughts Notice the 'themes' of the cards are recognizable: root veggies, roast, snow, gathering together, feasting, tiny people like elves, birth and rebirth... Even though the combinations and individual items are almost nonsensical. #anthropology 12:28 AM Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Web App
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    Organism - WITH TRE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON MERRY MAS CHRIST YOU. M.NotKE ONOON
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    Art - A menry Christmas Alamy Stock Photo
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    Illustration - A HAPPY CHISTMAS Ahearty hecome
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    Flower - hristmas appy LONDON RAPHAELTUCK&SONS
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    Text - Twin Rabbit @RabbitThoughts Sadly, the now familiar tropes of late-Victorian "Christmas" (the tree, candles, tufts of snow, Santa...) asserted themselves relatively quickly due to mass printers cornering the market. Images like dead robins, a pagan symbol of luck, all but vanished by early 1900. 2:48 AM Jul 4, 2019 Twitter Web App
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    Bird - Turkey Turkey @TiffanyTurril Replying to @RabbitThoughts my fave has always been this festive bird revolt all jellity ayour steusa 11:10 AM Jul 4, 2019 Twitter for Android
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    Feeder fish - Chloe Jacqueline I have one! It's a dead robin how festive! WeGYo HAPPY C 159 Like Reply 19w
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    Text - Eve Taggart I think it's worth pointing out that at this time, cocaine, morphine and cannabis could be bought over the counter. 285 Like Reply 19w
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    Text - John Bowes like the one of a man getting mauled by a polar bear. Merry Christmas. 43 Like Reply 19w
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    Text - Melissa M De Sa Every year, after going back for fourths and fifths of stuffing and mash, this is who I am. A potato with a hat on, high on tryptophan, struggling to breathe as it saunters over to mail you an Xmas card. Fat, sassy and asthmatic. MERRY MAS CURIST 102 Like Reply 19w Edited
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