Eric Scheske

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Expensive Card

A 162-year-old Christmas card - one of the first ever printed - sold at auction Saturday for $16,000.

The hand-colored card, which shows a family celebrating around a table, is one of about 10 surviving from an original batch of 1,000 printed in 1843, auctioneer Henry Aldridge said.

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