Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 horsehair clothes brush Signed on reverse

Signed on reverse

The vase is numbered "27" and stamped with a J and a JF

providing a guide for how it goes lest one get stuck (especially good as it is really not an especially challenging one to solve

the strap that would be used to snap the box closed is fairly tattered

I swear he helps with focus and concentration

Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 horsehair clothes brush Signed on reverseThis clever hand drawn postcard takes on new resonance these days, as we wait and worry wondering whether our mail will ever arrive! Here, the sender, Lucien has drawn himself as a young man cheerfully receiving a postcard from his uncle, which reads Letter suit ('letter to follow') on the front. Then he draws himself 50 years older, still waiting at the mailbox for the letter to arrive! On reverse, the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better