Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 horsehair clothes brush the strap that would be

the strap that would be used to snap the box closed is fairly tattered

I just love this little purple-glazed face

A bit faded with time in the very best way

providing a guide for how it goes lest one get stuck (especially good as it is really not an especially challenging one to solve

The vase is numbered "27" and stamped with a J and a JF

Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 horsehair clothes brush the strap that would beThis 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