Christmas Card: Vintage 1940s, Die-Cut Girl Wrapping Presents, Unused, A-Meri-Card, Ephemera

A little girl ties a ribbon bow on a stack of Christmas packages, the word “JOY” crowning the pile. Factory-fresh and never folded, it's holiday cheer exactly as it left the printer.

• Maker: A-Meri-Card
• Materials: Cardstock, fold-out die-cut
• Dimensions: Unfolded 6 × 4 inches; folded approx. 3 × 4 inches
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage 1940s–1950s
• Condition: Excellent vintage condition, New Old Stock — unused and never folded, with no writing or issues; no envelope. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

Marked 6738/7 and “Made in USA” on the back, this die-cut card captures the happy bustle of holiday gift-wrapping, a scene nearly everyone remembers from childhood. Because it was never folded or sent, its colors remain bright and its die-cut edges crisp.

A cheerful find for a greeting card collector, or a sweet accent for vintage Christmas displays, mantels, and holiday crafts.

A-Meri-Card has one of the more intriguing backstories in American greeting cards. The name appears on cards well before American Greetings of Cleveland filed its trademark in January 1960, and at least some 1940s A-Meri-Card pieces, including a 1947 punch-out party book, carry markings from the American Colortype Company, a large commercial color printer based in Chicago and New York. American Greetings carried the brand forward and kept it in production into at least the 1980s. Most surviving examples date to the 1950s and 1960s, and their die-cut designs and cheerful puns have made them favorites with collectors of mid-century ephemera.

Pair it with our other A-Meri-Card Christmas cards to build a matching holiday set.