William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings I'm guessing the two framed

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

also known as the Staff of Aesculapius

7 1/2" tall x 3" wide x 1" which

which I found at the estate sale of an actress and philanthropist in Brookline

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

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings I'm guessing the two framedSuch 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