Antique & Vintage Postcards

Charming Edwardian novelty postcard of a young girl in a blue dress and oversized red hair bows, stirring batter from a bowl at a black cast-iron kitchen stove while a grey tabby cat winds around her boots — floating hearts and a little steaming teapot in the upper corner completing the domestic idyll. The caption reads "Yes I can cook an' make pies an' things." Published by Whitney Made of Worcester, Massachusetts — one of the leading American greeting card and novelty postcard houses of the early 20th century — this card belongs to the cheerful genre of self-confident domestic humor that was wildly popular in the years before the First World War, sending small declarations of capability through the mail.