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It is known that ancient Chinese had exchanged greetings of good will to celebrate New Year. During 1400s Germans had printed New Year greetings from woodcuts. The first commercial Christmas card was released by Sir Henry Cole (Director of the London Victoria and Albert Museum, pioneer of the penny post. The year was 1843, the illustrator - John Callocott Horsley. The words that were written on the card said: “merry Christmas and happy New Year to you”.
On 24.11.2001 one of the few survived cards (it is believed that only 10 of them can be find nowadays from the 1000 copies)was sold for £22 500 . Cole sent it to his Granny and Auntie Chak. All that made it the most expensive and rarest Christmas card.
In 2005 another original was auctioned. The lucky purchaser was Jakki Brown in Pevizes. It was sent to Miss Mary Tripsack. This 162 years old card got the price of $16 000. The first official Christmas card sent from the White House was during President Dwight D. Eisenhower.