Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards old plane Clean inside

Clean inside

I know that this decoy came from the Chesapeake Bay area

otherwise good condition

including sitting open on a desk holding pencils or pens

I can't help but to think of this Inuit carved soapstone Narwahl as a good luck talisman- like a unicorn

Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards old plane Clean insideI definitely think these two need to stay together! My favorite thing is the caption on the left one, where the BW who signed it first wrote Little Nelly, then realized they'd made a mistake and wrote in Mary, adding the note below: "excuse error entirely due to direction of thoughts." Well, I wonder who the Nelly was who he or she was thinking about! I think perhaps they felt a little badly about it, prompting a second card dedicated to Mary,