Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed Signed on the bottom but

Signed on the bottom but illegible

1920s--and a late iteration of the mold to where the the edges are softened and what was a incised decorative band near the top has lost most of its detail

I have a hard time passing by a pretty lacquer box

late 19th century I believe

Two Portraits of Mary -- Pair of 1910 Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Postcards hand-formed Signed on the bottom butI definitely think these two need to stay together! My favorite thing is the caption on the left one, where the BW who signed it first wrote Little Nelly, then realized they'd made a mistake and wrote in Mary, adding the note below: "excuse error entirely due to direction of thoughts." Well, I wonder who the Nelly was who he or she was thinking about! I think perhaps they felt a little badly about it, prompting a second card dedicated to Mary,