Antique embossed A Merry Christmas postcard showing a mother and child in red coats walking a snowy lane with their dog toward a steepled church at sunset, framed in gilt with large red poinsettias, pine boughs and embossed mistletoe. Standard size, divided back, vertical format, postally used. Light edge wear and a pencil name at the bottom of the front; see photos.

Postmarked Salem, Ohio, December 22, 1910, 6 PM, with a machine cancel and green one-cent Franklin stamp. Addressed to Miss Mary Ester Burton, Salem, Ohio, R.F.D. 5, with a short Christmas greeting signed Mrs. Keen. A small G-in-triangle publisher's logo is printed at the bottom of the back.

A cheerful dated Christmas card from the Golden Age of postcards.