I Am Coming Soon! 1905 Hand-painted Dutch Boy Postcard walking bear Smaller box is 8 3/8"

Smaller box  is 8 3/8" x 4 1/8" x 2 3/8" and almost all of the way full

The bottle here is long gone

with plenty of scratches on the plexiglass and a bit of paint loss but still looks great to me and I think more or less indestructible

with floppy arms sewn on to the outside of her dress and hood/bonnet partially concealing drawn hair framing her face

perhaps indicating the age of the carver--or

I Am Coming Soon! 1905 Hand-painted Dutch Boy Postcard walking bear Smaller box is 8 3/8"One of two antique hand painted postcards found together this week, both dating to 1905 this one mailed from Springfield, Mo to Rogers, Arkansas, one assumes not long in advance of its sender arriving, perhaps for Christmas! Drawings and cutouts of Dutch boys and girls were quite the rage in the early 20th century, but I think this is an especially good one in his red and green with polka dots all over, and an expression on his face that seems to say