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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge The Crayola Box of 8 - Green 

 To round out March's Animal theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt we have Young animals.  A well dressed Bushel of Pork. Arkansas State Fair in Hot Springs -  Copyright 1907 Was " A long pull, a strong pull, a pull together ..." a way of saying " Come one, come all ..."? What's Going On? - postmark 1939 When Dogs are Puppies - postmark 1908  Oregon Young Wild Animals  raccoon, bobcat, red fox, elk  Next week is April, and the theme will be Colors of Spring.  First up will be pink .

 Animals on the Farm is this week's theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt .  "Interior of Stable" by  Moreland c. 1908-1914 Ohio Farmlife Tillamook , Oregon Dairy Cows Pets are the Animals for next week.

 I haven't had much success finding treasures in weeks, maybe even a few months.  The local Goodwill stores have yielded nothing time after time.  Art has been especially scarce as far as original paintings or interesting prints. Plenty of mass produced stuff though.  St. Vincent de Paul has had loads of 5¢ postcards, but those are just not Tuesday Treasure worthy for the most part.   Finally I found two items at St. Vincent de Paul.   This is a Jeanette Glass Co. pressed glass Jadeite milk glass pig. I'd seen it in the case a few times, and eventually asked to see it so I could determine what it was made of.  I was pleased it was glass, and very happy it was milk glass!  You can see the fire in the thin spots, like tail and ears.  This is my first piece of Jadeite.  The Jeanette Glass Co. began production of this color (green glass scraps added to the milk glass formula) in the early 1930s, and coined the name. I've seen bowls...

🥳Happy New Year🥳 c.1900 Happy and Prosperous New Year While four-leaf clovers have been symbols of good luck for centuries (the earliest known written record was in 1620, but it dates to long before that, to ancient Celtic times) pigs represented prosperity in the Victorian age. They doubled their odds of luck by often including four-leaf clovers with the pigs, as here. 1907 Two from 1909 c.1910 "... Auld Acquaintance " is from the an old Scottish folk song, later immortalized by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet.  Thistles are the national flower of Scotland, and the lion rampant (on hind legs, forelegs with claws extented) represents the Kings and Queens of Scotland.  You may be surprised to see this next postcard (actually a postal card) today and not last week for Christmas. It was sent to me recently from Russia, however it's an older card, c.1970s Soviet Era.   Religious holidays had been discouraged or outright banned after the 1917 Revolution.  New Year's ...