Woman with Flowered Hat Hand-painted Spanish Postcard, 1913 leaf design or using as a planter

or using as a planter or vessel for a fall arrangement

and no chipping paint

and the brass looks very much to me like  melted down shell casings

I think it has many good years left

Just shy of 9" x 9" and in very good condition - no chips or cracks and very little paint loss

Woman with Flowered Hat Hand-painted Spanish Postcard, 1913 leaf design or using as a planterI just love the image of this decked out woman, with huge hat like a rose garden, completely concealing her head, and reiterated with garland like trim on the back and cuffs of her jacket. My Spanish is, embarrassingly, close to non existent, but the front text seems perhaps to be suggesting shopping now and paying later though I am not totally sure?!? Sent to a Teresa Granell in Buena Vista, Valls (Catalonia, Spain) in May of 1913. Watercolor on