Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard cigar silk quilt wheels turn smoothly

wheels turn smoothly

3" long x 1 3/4" deep and 1 1/4" tall

including the suitor

There is an old sticker in the upper right corner of the interior with Japanese characters and

stoic and animated with its outstretched neck and black painted mouth

Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard cigar silk quilt wheels turn smoothlySuch a fun one! I just double checked and it was in 1910 that engineer Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first pair of audio headphones resembling modern day pairs (at his kitchen table); it is a bit hard to read the postmarks on this old postcard, but I think it dates to not long after, I think 1915. Whatever the case, what a great image of this black cat on red roof with yellow headphones plugged into a sort of wire prism suspended between the clouds,