Man with Cigar and White Horse in Backyard Standoff, Old Real Photo Postcard kanzashi used for sweeping eraser crumbs

used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints

this is truly an exquisitely woven piece

and wonderfully hand-painted

and thought they might still be useful for holding yarn

though I'm still not sure why it would have the handle on it

Man with Cigar and White Horse in Backyard Standoff, Old Real Photo Postcard kanzashi used for sweeping eraser crumbsI've been looking a fair amount at real photo postcards lately, which is fun but also a lot of scrolling through a lot that are not at all interesting, at least to me! Often the ones I like are not very good photographs at all, technically at least on this the horse is overexposed and the man very shadowed but what a great backyard stand off between the two, which one could read as something of a battle between good and evil! If you look closely you