Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) two tones and especially the shape of

and especially the shape of the stems

Victor-Emmanuel III (King of Italy)

A very finely crafted miniature shoe

with silver painted hand-carved stopper with cross-bar inside

I think this was most likely part of a singing bird cage or cuckoo clock or something similar

Girl with Rose, Huge Bow and Excellent Smile, 1909 RPPC (with Flag Cancellation) two tones and especially the shape ofJust 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