Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby typically wonderfully worn objects that

typically wonderfully worn objects that they are

Or a cracked egg on a string

with the instruction that on fair days the woman should be turned into the sun

10 1/4" x 11 1/8" x 5 3/8" tall

It may be the product of chaotic times

Dutch Boy Smoking Pipe, Hand-drawn Watercolor Postcard, 1924 woman with baby typically wonderfully worn objects thatI've come to understand that a Dutch boy in clogs was a common subject for hand drawn postcards in the first quarter of the 20th century, and was used as the basis for all sorts of playful variations. (I had another in the shop missing one sock, reading 'In Haste I am Yours'.) I love the pink cheeks and arched eyebrows on this (cheeky!) one, puffing on a very long pipe with trail of smoke behind presumably straight off the streets of Amsterdam! 3 1 2"