Antique botanical plate of a pomegranate branch with leaves, a whole rosy fruit and cut sections showing pink seeds, on cream

Small cut pomegranate showing pink seeds above the words HAPPY NEW YEAR in red capitals — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Pomegranate New Year

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A pomegranate branch from Köhler's 1887 book of medicinal plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller with its rosy fruit, seeds and leaves set out like specimens, opens to a simple Happy New Year. In Greece a pomegranate is smashed on the doorstep at New Year, and the more seeds scatter, the more luck the year brings. For someone you wish a lucky year.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY NEW YEAR

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / POMEGRANATE / Punica granatum / In Greece a pomegranate is smashed on the doorstep at New Year: the more seeds scatter, the more luck the year will bring. Its crowned tip is said to have inspired the first crowns. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.

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