Four Young Men on Train Car Old Real Photo Postcard heavy pitcher as would be my guess

as would be my guess with this one

This particular box features the original oak stain and mark on the front reading  "Patented 1889

giving this piece a striking elegance in addition to its quintessential MCM-ness

strangely and evocatively elongated like a late-day shadow

Four Young Men on Train Car Old Real Photo Postcard heavy pitcher as would be my guessIt's a bit difficult to decipher the writing on the back of this old postcard, but I can make out that its sender is proud to be "near as tall as [?] John is," and that the other two are "fellows" they met on the Mack train. I just love the image of the four of them perched together on the top of the train car, and then the extra strip of the photo exposed along the bottom of the postcard, highlighting and undermining the framing of the print as it