Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 clowns There is some old cloth

There is some old cloth tape stuck to the underside of the lid I have not tried to remove

There are small pin holes in the top two corners

There is a very small tear just to the surface on the top pair on the upper left rim of the glasses

” or the cocktail king of Cuba) and for its expat clientele including very frequent visitor Ernest Hemingway

and he's still got his pull string wrapped around his neck

Patience! 50 Years Waiting for a Letter, Pencil Drawn Postcard, 1908 clowns There is some old clothThis clever hand drawn postcard takes on new resonance these days, as we wait and worry wondering whether our mail will ever arrive! Here, the sender, Lucien has drawn himself as a young man cheerfully receiving a postcard from his uncle, which reads Letter suit ('letter to follow') on the front. Then he draws himself 50 years older, still waiting at the mailbox for the letter to arrive! On reverse, the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better