A comic genre scene titled "Driving a Hard Bargain": a woman in a red shawl, white apron and bonnet stands in a stone cottage doorway holding a stick, while two men in dark coats and bowler-style hats face her from a fenced yard, a pig at their feet. Such humorous rural vignettes were a staple of early twentieth-century picture postcards, often derived from painted or photographic studio tableaux and sold as greetings rather than as views of a specific place.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Charlotte
Hope you are well
Sending one of
my cards from
Ireland thought
you might like to
have one
H Norman
Thin white margin at edges; light corner and edge wear; printed caption in lower left corner.
Postmark: AMESBURY AUG 27 7 AM MASS. Divided-back Tuck's Oilette 'Irish Life' Series IV card with 1¢ Franklin stamp (1906). Light edge wear.
Cite this card
Driving a Hard Bargain, woman and two men bargaining over a pig, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1937. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/driving-a-hard-bargain-woman-and-two-men-bargaining-over-a-p. Accessed October 24, 2026.
