Antique Hand-drawn Postcard, Boy with Elephant and Frog tin toy phone With dress

With dress

Watercolor on both sides of the umbrella

construction details

it  struck me as a very beautifully sculptural object

Antique Hand-drawn Postcard, Boy with Elephant and Frog tin toy phone With dressQuite a charmer of a hand drawn postcard I think, dated 1910, executed in red and black ink on card, with a printed Canada postcard back. I love everything about this boy (look at those lines for bangs), but especially his strangely shaped right hand! And then how the blades of grass around the frog read also ike a burst of electricity as the boy points to it. All while the lonely elephant at upper right wanders away. 5 1 2 x 3 3 8". Very good