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A child holds a large bunch of holly and two others watch as a young woman stands on a chair to reach the picture she is decorating for Christmas. Colour process print.

Merry Christmas / Paul.

Enjoy Christmas with Stork : here is your plan for preparations starting from now : see other side for recipes and ideas for decorations and gift wrappings.

Xmas 1916 : "H" Company, 13th Batt. Training Reserve : menu ... / Chairman Co.-S.N. P.W. Allsop.

An undertaker drops in to give Christmas and New Year wishes to a sick man. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.

Snowflake

Christmas in the happy home / issued by the Gas Council.

Peace on Earth : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year / Alison Dexter ; Card Aid.

Borwick's baking powder is the best / [George Borwick & Sons].

St Thomas's Hospital: the "Florence Nightingale" Ward with Christmas [?] decorations. Photogravure after A. Rischgitz.

Three carol singers; behind, people with a  three-wheeled car. Gouache by A. Dare, 1964.

[Collector's sheet for mounting American Red Cross fund-raising Christmas seals / stickers from 1907-1916. Includes 6 stuck into place].

With best wishes for Christmas and the new year / Sharon Hessey ; Card Aid.

Joyeux Noël avec les humoristes de Canal+ : Le very best of : un cadeau hilarant et solidaire à offrir sans modération / Studio Canal, Solidarité Sida, Canal+ [and 2 others].

"New World" greeting for Christmas eating / Radiation Limited.

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Three carol singers; behind, people with a three-wheeled car. Gouache by A. Dare, 1964.

[Collector's sheet for mounting American Red Cross fund-raising Christmas seals / stickers from 1907-1916. Includes 6 stuck into place].

With best wishes for Christmas and the new year / Sharon Hessey ; Card Aid.

Joyeux Noël avec les humoristes de Canal+ : Le very best of : un cadeau hilarant et solidaire à offrir sans modération / Studio Canal, Solidarité Sida, Canal+ [and 2 others].

"New World" greeting for Christmas eating / Radiation Limited.