A wistful little Dutch girl in wooden klompen shoes and a winged cap stands at the water's edge, arms folded and eyes wide with longing — her sailing ship already a faint outline on the horizon. This charming blue-toned novelty card from around 1914 delivers its plaintive message in mock-Dutch dialect: "I'd rather see you now und den / Dan haf ein letter from your pen…" — a sentimental plea for human connection dressed up in comic ethnic costume, enormously popular in the early twentieth century. On April 27, 1914, someone — likely signing only initials — mailed it from Knoxboro, New York to a Mrs. Chas Shaver in Madison, NY, dashing off a quick note: "Just a line to let you know we are alive and hope you are the same love to all." The postmark reads APR 8, 7 AM, 1914, Knoxboro, N.Y., and the card bears a 1-cent green Washington stamp, standard for domestic postcard rate of the era. The soft Delft-blue illustration palette and the "divided back" layout place this squarely in the Golden Age of American postcards.