William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings And maybe also because I

And maybe also because I keep fantasizing about a great old farmhouse bathroom with clawfoot tub in which I'd spend half my time soaking

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

7 1/2" tall x 3" wide x 1" which

also known as the Staff of Aesculapius

somehow calling Jules Verne to mind

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings And maybe also because ISuch a special one, I think! Hard to know which of this proud shopkeepers of William Bliss scrawled the note at the bottom of the front of this real photo postcard from 1906, but what a wonderful proclamation, and how poised and ready for business these six look! I tried searching for records of a William Bliss store in Whitman, MA, where it seems this postcard originated, but while I found many families with the name of Bliss in these parts, I didn't