Four Young Men on Train Car Old Real Photo Postcard heavy pitcher the cap in his hand

the cap in his hand

Really great and surely fodder for all sorts of creative applications

as would be my guess with this one

This particular box features the original oak stain and mark on the front reading  "Patented 1889

and while I'm eyeing these old Noah's arks all the time I've never seen one a set with animals as good as these

Four Young Men on Train Car Old Real Photo Postcard heavy pitcher the cap in his handIt's a bit difficult to decipher the writing on the back of this old postcard, but I can make out that its sender is proud to be "near as tall as [?] John is," and that the other two are "fellows" they met on the Mack train. I just love the image of the four of them perched together on the top of the train car, and then the extra strip of the photo exposed along the bottom of the postcard, highlighting and undermining the framing of the print as it