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A
greeting card is an illustrated, folded paper card usually featuring a
message and
By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards were being
exchanged in Europe. The Germans are known to have printed
New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400,
By the 1850s, the greeting card had been
transformed from a relatively expensive, handmade and
hand-delivered gift to a popular and affordable means of
personal communication, due largely to advances in printing
and mechanization.
This was followed by new trends like
Christmas cards, . Humorous greeting cards, known as
studio cards, became popular in the late 1940s and
1950s.Although greeting cards
are usually given on special occasions such as birthdays and
Christmas, they are also sent simply to say "hello" or
"thank you" and usually packaged with an envelope, come in a variety of
styles, manufactured by companies big and small.
During the late 1900s giving greeting cards began to turn, with consumers
looking for greeting cards that were different from the mass produced
greeting cards. By the year 2000 the market was clearly beginning to
separate in to three different segments: handmade and premium cards,
mass-manufactured cards and
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