Girl Inside a Red Poppy! 1910 Hand-painted Watercolor Postcard little painted wooden geese while I am sad for

while I am sad for this Grandmother

perfectly designed game

A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer

1830 British playing cards (a complete deck goes for $500 or so) but it's not surprising that over the past nearly 200 years some have been lost

but at the top of the Department Store (featured on three of them) is the year 1908

Girl Inside a Red Poppy! 1910 Hand-painted Watercolor Postcard little painted wooden geese while I am sad forA total gem I think. I take it to be a lush red poppy (my personal favorite flower) from which this little girl is peeking out her head, which makes it seem a bit like an Opium fueled vision! Sent by a Dieterich to an Elizabeth Burmann in 1910, along with the news that Dieterich was not feeling well and the Rich Boatman's wife was dead! 5 5 8" x 3 5 8" and in great antique condition.