Stunning Antique RPPC of Coal Miners with Dog scrap metal color and surface among them

color and surface among them quite beautiful

One of the things I love about old Color Cubes is how each set acquires its own personality over time

I think I'd use it as a serving bowl

but the exterior I find quite beautiful

Some rusting and a little paint loss

Stunning Antique RPPC of Coal Miners with Dog scrap metal color and surface among themI was pretty blown away when I find this antique RPPC yesterday in New Hampshirewhat a stunning image. Clearly these are coal miners having emerged from the deep in the mine, with this soot covered hound at the center of it all. I'm guessing this was taken about c. 1910s, when hard shelled electric miner's cap lamps began to replace canvas caps with brackets to which oil lamps attached, which is what a few of these miners are still wearing; this