This postcard was not mailed, and lacks an address or any other clues to the identity of the sender or the recipient.

Even the date is difficult to determine conclusively – because postcards printed in the United States copied European styles and often lacked small details that help to assign a date.

At the close of a year near 1915, Margaret was given a postcard from Grandma.

The effusive affection expressed by Grandma may indicate that Margaret is a child.

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The face of the postcard is bordered with a frame of birch logs.

A medallion drawing, in the shape of a bell, depicts a road passing through snow-covered fields.

In the distance, a rural home beckons.

The weak sun provides pale yellow illumination of the winter landscape.

In the center of the face, a printed message in ornate letters proclaims “A Happy New Year”.

Beneath the greeting is a deeply- embossed illustration of pink blossoms on a bough.

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On the reverse, we find a message “To Margaret”.

The postcard is sent “with love and kisses”.

Grandma is “Wishing her a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”

The message concludes, “From her own loving Grandma.”

Margaret preserved the loving New Year postcard in excellent condition throughout her life.

One hopes that the friendship between Grandma and Margaret, and their postcard correspondence, endured through many New Years.