Two gap-toothed donkeys wearing bright yellow halters flank the punchy rhetorical question "When Shall We Three Meet Again" — the joke being, of course, that you the viewer are the implied third jackass — and someone has gleefully annotated the card in blue ink with "so near! yet so far," turning this already cheeky novelty piece into a personal in-joke between friends. Mailed from Brooklyn, New York on July 18 (year partially legible, stamp and cancel style suggest c. 1906) to Miss Christina at 180 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn — meaning sender and recipient were mere neighborhoods apart, which makes the "so near yet so far" annotation all the funnier. The card uses a 1¢ Franklin stamp of the 1902–1903 series, and the Brooklyn NY Station cancellation is cleanly struck. Comic and novelty donkey cards were enormously popular in the Edwardian era as a form of gentle ribbing between friends, and the "three meet again" phrase — a wink at the Shakespeare witches' line — gave senders plausible deniability for calling their recipient a donkey.