Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard cigar silk quilt 4 1/8 x 13/16” wide

4 1/8 x 13/16” wide and deep

wheels turn smoothly

then was delighted to open it to find many more eggs inside--a total of seven altogether

then as a designer for Gustavsberg

A really lovely and super useful piece

Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard cigar silk quilt 4 1/8 x 13/16” wideSuch 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,