Antique "A merry Christmas" postcard showing a boy in plaid knickers and red stockings hugging a girl in a white bonnet and apron beside a snowy fence and bare tree, with a basket of four-leaf clovers and a horseshoe at their feet and gold clovers in the snow. Embossed with gold highlights. Divided back with a multilingual Postkarte / Carte postale / Weltpostverein header and "printed in Germany" along the left edge. Standard size, about 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Condition: light corner and edge wear; postally used with ink address and signature.

Mailed with a green 1-cent Franklin stamp, cancelled with a barred killer and a circular postmark that is only partly legible (ending in "Ohio"; town and date not readable). Addressed in ink to Miss Mary Esther Burton, Salem, Col. Co., Ohio, with "Wilson St." added, and signed "Maggie" on the message side.

From a family correspondence group addressed to Mary Esther Burton of Salem, Ohio. Small initials appear near the lower left of the picture.