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Gilded Age Greetings
Gilded Age Greetings
The $5,000 card features precious jewels and is gilded in gold. Just make sure it doesn't get tossed with the junk mail!
If a Hallmark card from the grocery store isn’t cutting it this holiday season, all you need is an extra $5,000 for a note that really shows you went the extra mile.
Gilded Age Greetings is selling a $5,000 Christmas card adorned with emeralds, diamonds and sapphires and hand-gilded with 23-karat gold. The “Illuminated Merry Christmas Original Grand Couture” card comes with a set of white gloves for “proper handling,’’ according to the company’s website.
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The "Victorian Ornament Grand Couture" card sells for $3,950.
Cards in the “Grand Couture” and “Couture’’ lines sell for $1,000 to $5,000. For $3,950, you can get the “Victorian Ornament Grand Couture” card that comes adorned with emeralds and rubies and a biography of the artist. It, too, includes white gloves and is embellished with 23-karat gold.
The company reports that clients and commissions of company co-founder Rosemary Buczek have included Exxon, Prudential, Rutgers University, the U.S. Army, Sony, as well as private collectors.
Gilded Age Greetings also offers custom-made cards, according to a spokesperson. If you want more emeralds, rubies, or diamonds or a design other than the ones advertised, the company will create a one-of-a-kind card (for a one-of-a-kind price).
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Those designs are pretty ugly. I think I prefer the dollar store cards although my absolute favorite are home-made ones made from construction paper. Those are from the heart, not from having too much money than to know what to do with.
What really disturbs me is the army bought these cards!!!!! Thanks for spending my tax dollars, you jerks!
I love how the list of clients includes places with inflated budgets who really don't need to be making excuses to spend money on trivial things. University costs are through the roof, and the army eats up a good portion of our national budget; indebted grads with no jobs and a national debt already out of control are two problems not solved with wasteful spending on $5000 cards that serve the same purpose as $1 ones.
I mean, come on army! You don't need to be sending ugly $5,000 greeting cards when there are homeless vets starving in the streets!
I love how theres a link at the bottom of the article to one called "how not to bust your Christmas budget". This is such a vulgar useless disply of wealth. I wonder how Christ would feel that this much money is wasted in his name , rather than donating to charity. The people who make these cards are trash. The people who buy these cards are trash.
The article doesn't say the Army or any of the other companies and institutions mentioned bought these expensive cards. It says they are clients of the company's co-founder, who also happens to be a master artistic calligrapher. It is pretty easy to see any of those companies, universities, armed forces needing an ornate certificate, diploma or commendation.