A rosy-cheeked child in a red dress and wooden clogs crouches wide-eyed before a hay-filled hutch where three rabbits — two white, one brown — nestle among scattered coloured Easter eggs, the whole scene framed in a gilded inset panel above a lavish embossed surround of pink roses, purple violets, forget-me-nots, red ribbon bows and a lucky four-leaf clover, all printed in Austria with the exuberant chromolithographic confidence that made Viennese-printed holiday cards the envy of the postcard world. Postmarked Washington D.C., April 17, 1908 and addressed to Marguerite in Poolesville, Maryland — a small agricultural town in Montgomery County — the card arrived with its stamp area cancelled by a Washington machine postmark, suggesting it was posted from the capital for delivery to the rural Maryland community about 35 miles northwest. The card's embossed surface shows the characteristic cracking of a century of storage, adding archaeological character to a vivid Edwardian keepsake.