Four enormous, knobby "Irish Cobbler" potatoes — Maine's most celebrated early-season variety — are arranged in a still-life composition of almost surreal grandeur against a jewel-toned iridescent cloth, their buff-gold skins and characteristic blunt eyes rendered in rich, studio-quality colour by the C.T. American Art Colored process in a card that straddles agricultural pride and pure novelty whimsy. The Irish Cobbler was the dominant commercial potato variety in Maine at the turn of the twentieth century, prized for its earliness and flavour, and Maine's potato industry was a cornerstone of the state's rural economy; "big potato" novelty cards were a wildly popular genre of the Golden Age of postcards, sent as humorous bragging-rights dispatches from agricultural regions across the country. This example, published by Curt Teich's Chicago operation under its "C.T. American Art Colored" imprint, is an unusually refined take on the genre — the dramatic lighting and careful colour separation elevate it well above the typical exaggeration-comic style.