Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) figures marching and blue sky overhead

and blue sky overhead

Model 148/2740 (design 148 on shape 2740)

little painterly gems

30 1/2" t x 10 1/2" w x 5/8" d

kept by a Roy L

Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) figures marching and blue sky overheadJust a beauty of a girl and a portrait I think, no explication required! Quite angeliic looking but something in that face suggests to me that she was more than a handful! No message at all on reverse but addressed simply to Oval Thurston of Fountain City (Indiana) and postmarked Dec, 23, 1909 with a nice flag cancellation. (I've found some records of Oval such a good name! who was married in Fountain City in 1910.) 5 7 16" x 3 7 16" and in very good