Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 original illustrations and incised patterns at their

and incised patterns at their centers

They measure between 11 5/8" to 12" long

and hand-painted with wonderful all-over maze-like geometric patterns

Like a large folk carving of a woman reading I posted and immediately sold a few weeks ago

and still in operation

Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 original illustrations and incised patterns at theirI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as