William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings it's an old stair baluster

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

and I know that Middse refers to Middlesex

somehow calling Jules Verne to mind

I'm guessing the two framed cages at the center of the barge

It appears that one can take the whole thing apart (if for example one just wanted to wear the handshake pin around)

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings it's an old stair balusterSuch a special one, I think! Hard to know which of this proud shopkeepers of William Bliss scrawled the note at the bottom of the front of this real photo postcard from 1906, but what a wonderful proclamation, and how poised and ready for business these six look! I tried searching for records of a William Bliss store in Whitman, MA, where it seems this postcard originated, but while I found many families with the name of Bliss in these parts, I didn't