Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed with wonderful patterns throughout

with wonderful patterns throughout

Signed on the bottom but illegible

It measures 19 1/2" across when open

was a borrowed costume at a photographer's studio

late 19th century I believe

Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed with wonderful patterns throughoutI 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,