Very Young Chair Makers, 1907 RPPC with Note to Grandma, Kutztown, PA pocket watch and the gold leaf of

and the gold leaf of the "pages" are just gorgeous

and also how much it feels so much of a certain moment in time and consciousness

I never paid much attention to stone (marble) fruit until seeing an incredibly fine (and very expensive) antique sliced pear with seeds not long ago

made in the 1940s or 50s for the tourist market I'd think

Very Young Chair Makers, 1907 RPPC with Note to Grandma, Kutztown, PA pocket watch and the gold leaf ofA very tender real photo postcard, postmarked 1907 which for me is all about the interplay of the photo and the handwritten text. "Hello Grandma, I thought I would sent [sic] you a postal to let you know I am still alive. This is my parner [sic] and my picture's were [sic] I work. Good bye. J. L. O. Answer." And so young these two boys look, working at making chairs it appears, each one with a hand on the the back of his particular chair with what