Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 figurative snuff box There is a tiny

There is a tiny

and a couple of chips to the lacquer--one to the left of the rear hinge

Hand-drawn in blue ink (a few small smears on the leaves of the branch on which the birds sit make it clear this is drawn rather than printed) on cardstock weight board

I believe his head is made of plaster

Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 figurative snuff box There is a tinyThis clever hand drawn postcard takes on new resonance these days, as we wait and worry wondering whether our mail will ever arrive! Here, the sender, Lucien has drawn himself as a young man cheerfully receiving a postcard from his uncle, which reads Letter suit ('letter to follow') on the front. Then he draws himself 50 years older, still waiting at the mailbox for the letter to arrive! On reverse, the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better