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Easter Greetings
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Easter postcard with a well-dressed rooster, with arms instead of wings, carrying a cane and an Easter Egg on a ribbon. He is wearing a jacket with a pussy willow boutonniere and spats, smoking a cigarette and wearing a monocle. In the lower right is a frog. Text on front reads: "Easter Greetings." Chromolithograph and embossed.
1915
Paul Finkenrath, Ltd.
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WHi 148868
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