I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. at shore The plates

The plates

or windows and doors---aspiring to fit right in

not pictured here

I especially love the very narrow neck between box and base and the unusual diamond-shaped details on each side which combines stacked layers with chip-carved strips turned on their sides

One sees these cut metal figures now and then

I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. at shore The platesWhat 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