Plant Samples - Corn, Beans, Peas, Oats, Real Photo Postcards - Set 2 antique lacquered box with a hand and face

with a hand and face in pale yellow and hair and perhaps a foot rendered in graphite) represents an angel of sorts

one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint (and deemed as good as the British) produced watercolors embossed with eagles

I'd guess it was once part of a larger thing

so I am not certain of its origins

or even an excuse

Plant Samples - Corn, Beans, Peas, Oats, Real Photo Postcards - Set 2 antique lacquered box with a hand and faceI 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