Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 man the wife of Punch

the  wife of Punch

and a very satisfying object I must say

and while I don't think it is terribly old

it's really a beauty I think

and which I think is original to the piece: there is a thin split on one side of the neck

Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 man the wife of PunchI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as