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The Jane Austen Christmas Token
$22.99
A merry Christmas. No stuffy formalities required.
Christmas wishes can be warmer than a hurried signature beneath a printed greeting. The Jane Austen Christmas Token gives your words a little occasion of their own: a hand-folded keepsake that opens layer by layer, with your personal message waiting at the centre. It echoes the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century tradition of puzzle-purse valentines, whose folds revealed verses and affection a little at a time. For the Austen devotee drawn to handwritten letters and thoughtful rituals, it’s a way to send thanks, love or a Christmas wish worth keeping.
The design brings together illustrations from The Twelve Days of Christmas, four houses from Austen’s novels and characters arriving to celebrate together. It recalls a festive world of family gatherings, feasts and evergreen boughs, with a nod to the carol’s early life as a counting-and-forfeits game. Inside is Austen’s own wonderfully unceremonious wish to Cassandra: “merry Christmas, but no compliments of the season”. A fitting starting point for a note that sounds like you, rather than the committee responsible for seasonal pleasantries.
Details
- By The Keep Sake Press
- Pack of two hand-folded paper keepsakes
- Each opens in layers, with space for a personal message at the centre
- Includes a practice sheet and folding instructions
- Paper sheets measure 16 × 16 cm
- Printed on traditional laid paper
- Features The Twelve Days of Christmas illustrations arranged like a miniature memory game
- Interior features four houses from Austen’s novels and characters arriving for Christmas
- Includes a Christmas letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra
Perfect for
- Austen devotees whose festive reading comes with a healthy appreciation of dry wit
- Literary romantics reviving the pleasure of a Christmas note written by hand
- Thoughtful correspondents with more to say than “compliments of the season”