Santa Claus Postcards

More children being naughty.

Santa arrives by other means.

Here are some more ways Santa uses to deliver his gifts.

Hands up Santa!

Those kids are going on the naughty list next year!

This is a wonderful collection -- I'm really enjoying these posts. Did Krampus ever make it onto any postcards?

Krampus did make it to postcards. In my last post he can be seen behind St. Nicholas on the sled going down hill. I have several books on Krampus and he is on postcards. I seen a few early (1900-1920) cards for sale but they were out of my price range. There are many from the 1950s and later.
Here are a few Krampus cards I found on the internet.
This is an early one.




This is more recent probably 1950s.

Here are a few new cards that arrived this week for my Santa collection.
The first card is Buster Brown, his sweetheart Mary Jane, and his dog Tige dressed as Santa. The second card is a child hitting Santa & he don't look amused. The third card shows an image of Santa holding up a message. I have several of this style and the message is preprinted on the card.

I received a new Santa card. It's the first card and has a smaller vignette than the other two cards. The 2nd has gold high lights. The 3rd card is the basic image
They are all printed in Germany.

Seems like the printing companies liked to play around with the layout. I notice one of your cards shows a cropped version of the same Santa on one of mine.

Here are the cards I picked up in the last year, Enjoy!

Very enjoyable thread. I think I like Santa in blue.

I don't collect Santa used in advertising but I make an exception for the Buster Brown cards. I don't search them out but if I come across one and the price is right I'll add it to my collection.


Here's one with Father Time. There are many with Baby New Year but few showing Father Time.


Santa riding a Yule Log.


Santa having problems with his sleigh.