Victorian Christmas Angels with Instruments Greeting Card

Candles glowing with star-burst halos and tucked casually among dry pine branches suggest that Victorian-era card designers had a genuinely cavalier relationship with the concept of structural fire safety—especially when they've stationed two chubby cherubs in tiny dresses, one red and one green, right in the middle of this evergreen fire hazard. The one on the left blows a horn with the dead-serious commitment of a tiny jazz musician who really needs this gig, while her companion on the right hoists a drumstick aloft like she's about to conduct either a symphony or an exorcism, with an actual drum sitting right beside her. Apparently the best way to deliver 'Christmas Greetings' is unsupervised toddler angels perched in a tree ringed with open flames.