Grand Père Noël vintage découpé vente avec deux marionnettes et rubis perchés sur houx *

Description: ThisLarge Vintage Christmas Die Cut of Santa has Two Puppets & Robins Perched on some Holly in lower right hand corner. Beautiful deep colored die cut with lots of detail on the toys. There are some homes in the background.

History of Die Cuts: "During the Victorian Era (1837-1901), middle-class households would often have a family scrap album, where the bits of paper collected each day could becollagesonto its thick pages. Ticket stubs, brochures, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, paper dolls, postcards, business cards, ribbons, literary excerpts, and eventually photographswere all preserved on the pages of these memory books.In response to thescrap bookingtrend, 19th-century bookmakers designed blank albums with elaborate, tooled-leather covers, gilt paper edgings, and engraved clasps. The earliest materials explicitly produced as die-cut “scrap” for decorating homemade albums were black-and-white, hand-colored etchings. As lithography processes improved, bright colors, textured embossing, and glossy finishes were employed to enhance the printed imagery.By the late 1800s,Britain,Germany, and theUnited Stateshad become the leaders in such scrap production. Successful companies like Currier & Ives and Raphael Tuck & Sons created beautiful scrap pieces alongside smaller brands like Allen & Ginter and Littauer & Boysen. But the German die cuts are considered the best because of the details of their tooling process."

Measures 7-1/2" W x 12" H.

Condition: Corners and edges are slightly worn.

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