I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape but overall very good antique

but overall very good antique condition

And then Hattie shows us the cider mill and tells us how bad she felt when Witneose went away when he was 2 years old and was sick in three or four days and seems to have disappeared: "Oh how I wish I had Witenose now

I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark--let alone a heart

I've got a weakness for the crib as a form--nice long lines plus pretty arches on the rockers below and head and foot boards at either end

and especially love the formal echo from the side buns of her hair to the loops of her bow to the leaves and petals of the flower she holds

I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape but overall very good antiqueWhat a strikingly handsome couple these two, and what an interesting postcard their portrait a real photo, pasted down, but the mount a pre printed postcard (first decade 1900s I believe; undivided back, 2 cent stamp) with the embossed text reading "I am still single. How are you?" I've found a few other examples of postcard mounts in just the same style as this one with other (mostly silly sorts of) embossed messages; but here, and a good part of why