A decorative still-life arrangement: a footed bowl holding a pineapple, dark bunches of grapes and rosy apples or peaches, with a purple fish below at left and small pink root vegetables (radishes or turnips) with leaves at lower right. The picture is worked in deep die-pressed relief rather than flat printing, a style of embossed novelty card popular in the early 1900s, when such relief ornaments were sold and mailed as small decorative gifts.
Postcard Details
Message · Swedish, in pen
En helsning från din vän
Sigrid Tallgren
Farwell June 14th 1909
Translation
There have come 5 letters from your friend
Dagny Tagren
Thursday June 13 1909
Deep embossed/die-pressed relief with hand-coloured accents; no border; light foxing and surface soiling; small crease at upper right corner; faint pencil squiggle at upper left (not a message).
Postmark: [illegible] JUN 14 8 PM 1909 MINN. Divided-back embossed card; Swedish message written sideways along left edge; light edge wear.
Cite this card
Embossed fruit and fish still life, Holmes City, MN, 1909, postcard, c. 1909. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/embossed-fruit-and-fish-still-life-holmes-city-mn-1909. Accessed November 2, 2026.
