I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape I've got a weakness for

I've got a weakness for the crib as a form--nice long lines plus pretty arches on the rockers below and head and foot boards at either end

And I believe there would originally have been nine of them

giving the whole thing the feeling of a vision

which just pops (though the polka dotted ends of her obi are pretty great too

and especially love the formal echo from the side buns of her hair to the loops of her bow to the leaves and petals of the flower she holds

I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape I've got a weakness forWhat a strikingly handsome couple these two, and what an interesting postcard their portrait a real photo, pasted down, but the mount a pre printed postcard (first decade 1900s I believe; undivided back, 2 cent stamp) with the embossed text reading "I am still single. How are you?" I've found a few other examples of postcard mounts in just the same style as this one with other (mostly silly sorts of) embossed messages; but here, and a good part of why