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Posted By: brian p

Within the realm of collectordom we are usually forced to choose the path that our collecting journey shall undertake: that of accessibility and uncommon beauty, or one that betokens an unusual quest for that which normally eludes ones grasp. Rare is the card that has the power to entwine both normally exclusive destinations. The ease at which the artist of this 1907 HM Taylor Hugh Jennings postcard has captured, with a few surehanded penstrokes, the raw elemental nature of both 'Hughie' and his bestial consort, surpasses our ability to express, within the humble confines of our impoverished vocabulary, uncommon beauty and gracefulness. Yet this depiction also succeeds in quenching our competing desire to possess that which is not sullied by the overaching hand of commonness, for it possesses a rarity that bespeaks of the "attic find" that populates the very fiber of our collecting spirit.


I ran out of words to actually describe the condition.


Brian