Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch & Fortune Telling

Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch & Fortune Telling

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OccasionHalloween
EraArt Deco (1920s-1930s)
Decade1920s
Stylechromolithograph
Colorsorange, black, cream, brown, pink
Vibescamp, dark-humor

Text on Card

Go out alone at midnight, Pluck out a lock of hair. Send it on the evening breeze To find your loved one fair. The way it takes to flying Is where your love is sighing

Description

A playful Halloween spirit emanates from this Art Deco greeting card, where a figure in a checkered orange-and-black costume strikes a whimsical pose while blowing bats or magic from her hands toward a fluttering flock. A witch silhouette rides her broomstick across an orange moon in the upper left, while the main figure's animated crouching stance captures the modernist sensibility of the 1920s, blending geometric design with folk-inspired charm. Below the illustration, a jack-o'-lantern sits near a delightfully absurd poem that offers fortune-telling advice: pluck out a lock of hair and send it on the evening breeze to find your true love. The warm palette of orange, black, and cream embodies classic seasonal style.

Subjects

witch on broomstick, figure in checkered costume, bats, moon, jack-o-lantern, fortune-telling, love-spell

Printing Notes

Hand-colored lithograph with embossed details. Minor aging and foxing consistent with 1920s production.

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