Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) figures marching and really love this tiny

and really love this tiny one

each special in its own way

little painterly gems

Model 148/2740 (design 148 on shape 2740)

I have not attempted to polish the clip

Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) figures marching and really love this tinyJust a beauty of a girl and a portrait I think, no explication required! Quite angeliic looking but something in that face suggests to me that she was more than a handful! No message at all on reverse but addressed simply to Oval Thurston of Fountain City (Indiana) and postmarked Dec, 23, 1909 with a nice flag cancellation. (I've found some records of Oval such a good name! who was married in Fountain City in 1910.) 5 7 16" x 3 7 16" and in very good