History of Greeting cards

Sending Greeting Cards to your lovers, family & friends; is an old tradition that goes way back over 200 years !! This Owl Cards Blog aim to unwrap the brief milestones of the custom of exchanging greeting card tradition from ancient to current.

It is submitted that ancient Chinese started this tradition and then followed by Egyptians it got spread across the Europe and eventually it spread to the rest of the world. However the oldest greeting card of existence is a Valentine Card made during early 1400s; which is now preserved at British Museum in London.

Sending a greeting card was treated as a less popular method of exchanging wishes back in 1400 due to its expensive make, this is mainly because greeting cards were handmade and delivered by person thus it was an expensive method back in those days. However there has being a rapid growth of sending Christmas

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