Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Trivia Pur$uit

The first known Christmas card was created for Sir Henry Cole of England, who had a thousand printed for sale in his shop in 1843. But they didn't sell well enough for him to repeat the effort the following year.

2 comments:

B.T.Bear (esq.) said...

The first ones were sort of postcards, I think.

david mcmahon said...

Hi BTBear,

Would love some more info if you have it handy ....

Cheers

David