To My Dear Grandma at Christmas - Holly Lettering, Wish Bone, Swastika

Description: To My Dear Grandma at Christmas - Holly Lettering, Wish Bone, Swastika, Forget-Me-Nots & Roses - 1908: A grandma is a female grandparent. This Divided Back Era Gilded postcard, mailed in 1908, features a call to "My Dear Grandma at Christmas time with holly lettering for the world "Grandma", and other indices of luck and cheer including a Good Luck Wishbone, Forget-Me-Not flowers and Roses and faint Swastika under the "N" of "Grandma". The swastika’s use in India dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization city of Harappa, and came to represent Vishnu in Hinduism. In Chinese Taoism, the swastika is a symbol of eternity. For Tibetan Buddhism, it is emblematic of the element of Earth. It is a common practice for Hindus to draw Swastika symbols on the doors and entrances to their houses during festivals, which is believed to symbolize an invitation to goddess Lakshmi. The symbol has a long history in Europe reaching back to antiquity. In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity as a good luck symbol in Western culture, a swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920, which used the swastika as a hate-filled symbol of the Aryan race. The use of the swastika as a good luck symbol caused its employment in many greeting cards of the early 1900 (the so-called "golden era" of postcard), well before the Nazi usurpation. The card is in good condition but there is edge wear.

Price: 9.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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