Charming vintage Christmas greeting card featuring an angel decorating a Christmas tree with candles and ornaments.

The card includes a loose handwritten insert page dated January 23, 1895, featuring a quote attributed to Chaucer:

“For three may keep a counsel if twain be away.”

The page appears to have been saved and later tucked into the card when it was sent, creating an interesting combination of Victorian manuscript ephemera and mid-century holiday illustration.

Card details

   •   Publisher: Grinnell, New York City

   •   Marked Made in U.S.A.

   •   Angel decorating Christmas tree illustration

   •   Message inside reads:

“With a tree, lots of gifts and everything – From Agatha”

Insert page

   •   Dated JAN 23 1895 – WEDNS.

   •   Handwritten Chaucer quotation

   •   Loose insert (not attached to card)

A unique small piece of historical ephemera combining late 19th-century manuscript writing with a vintage illustrated Christmas card.