British Hand-painted Lake Landscape Postcard with Gold Painted Frame, c. 1910 original drawing Originally used for holding cutlery

Originally used for holding cutlery

This is a set of 11

a mythological creature considered a guardian figure in Japanese culture and a popular subject in Japanese papier-mâché

The silver pins at the joints

"/ "I Prefer my Claret alone Mamma"/ "But George dear Water brings out the Flavour of the Wine

British Hand-painted Lake Landscape Postcard with Gold Painted Frame, c. 1910 original drawing Originally used for holding cutlerySome old hand painted postcards I love for their curiosity of their imagery and captions, and others, like this one, for representing an easy way to collect lots of little landscape paintings! I especially love the gold painted curlicue border around this one, just right for a framing a postcard perfect view, with sailboat in the distance. Signed ORG at bottom right for O. R. Gerring, stamped again on the reverse side, certainly a relative of the Mr.