Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed and Tales of Sorrow and

and Tales of Sorrow and Revenge

I have a hard time passing by a pretty lacquer box

It measures 19 1/2" across when open

late 19th century I believe

was a borrowed costume at a photographer's studio

Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed and Tales of Sorrow andI definitely think these two need to stay together! My favorite thing is the caption on the left one, where the BW who signed it first wrote Little Nelly, then realized they'd made a mistake and wrote in Mary, adding the note below: "excuse error entirely due to direction of thoughts." Well, I wonder who the Nelly was who he or she was thinking about! I think perhaps they felt a little badly about it, prompting a second card dedicated to Mary,