Today is the first day of Christmas blogging, which will happen up until Christmas is over. These are some of Twelvetrees’ Santas, in series number 1034 from a publisher I am not sure of. I still need one more brown suited Santa to complete the series.
Here is a red suited Santa with a sack full of toys, sans sleigh. “I had no reindeer And I had no sleigh But I got in there Another way.” This card was postmarked in 1918 three days before Christmas.
This is another card that I consider to be a Santa, even though the caption reads: “A Merry Christmas Santa Claus is so busy this year, he got me to help him.” He’s checking lists, and the bad kids’ lists I assume are filling up the trash can. This was postmarked Christmas eve, 1912.
This brown suited Santa is my favorite. I got it at a postcard show a couple years ago in Have de Grace, MD. “Sometimes I have trouble getting down the chimney because I’m so fat, but I managed to fill your stockings.” How did he managed to fill the stockings? He is just like the first Santa, finding an alternative way to get in the houses 
Postmarked Christmas day, c1912.
