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Season's Greetings to all,

I didn't want to highjack LadyHawke's thread (Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas) on decorating your home for the holidays, so I hope it's OK to start this "companion piece" --- Show us your favorite Christmas card/photo. Each year we look forward to receiving phonograph/record-related Christmas cards (either stock preprinted, or original photos) from other collectors. What do you have to share? I'll start with the following:

It's been 14 years since I took this picture of our two boys (10 mo., and 10 years old at the time), but this is still my own personal favorite Christmas picture (yes, I am a bit biased). After removing the turntable and sufficiently padding the spindle/motorboard area, I decorated our Edison C250 with our little Santa impersonator. After one broken Little Wonder record and eleven failed attempts at a usable photograph (this Santa kept throwing off his cap), we finally got a shot we could use for our annual Christmas card. Memories...

Does anyone else have a favorite phonograph/record Christmas card/photo to share?


Hope you have a Cheerful (Y)earful,
Bob

Very cute picture. You ought to get them to re-enact it this xmas, assuming you still have a comparable phono with which they can pose. Get them to duplicate their poses as closely and carefully as possible (although the younger one has to stand next to it and lean in under the lid, I suppose), and you'll have a second classic.

Years ago when my kids were small, I played "Santa Claus Hides In Your Phonograph" for them. Harry's fiendish laugh drove them from the room immediately - we never got all the way through it.

Here's a colorful Sonora Christmas advertising card I've enjoyed for many years:

Little Billy must have been thrilled to receive this Christmas postcard for members only. Merry Christmas to all from "Little Nipper".

Rob & Joan

Here's the cover of a Christmastime list of Blue Amberols.

Thanks for the Christmas-themed responses. Keep them coming!!!

Bob

Deutsche Grammophon A. G. Christmas records catalogue (1908)

Our house Christmas 2013.

Are those real "lit" candles on the tree??

If so, Wow, You are brave!

)

Tony K. - Edison Collector

NEFaurora wrote:Are those real "lit" candles on the tree??

If so, Wow, You are brave!

)

Tony K. - Edison Collector

Absolutely they are! However we bring in the tree a few days before Christmas, (we have not put it up yet), so the tree is fresh and moist. The candles are lit a few days later on Christmas Eve for just a few hours. Admittedly a lot of work and decorating for a very short time of enjoyment.