A woman in a black dress and an oversized Merry Widow hat stands behind a long bench or trunk, with a railroad station and tracks in the background. The verse imagines a man killed by "a little shock" from the bill for the Merry Widow hat. The wide-brimmed hat, named for the 1905 operetta, was a common target for comic postcards in the Edwardian era.
White border at bottom with printed caption; copyright 1908; light crease lower right. No postmark and no stamp. Divided-back card; front carries a printed copyright 1908 by I. Grollman. Dealer pencil marks 'RMLJ' and '#5-' at top left. Name 'Mattie Glenn' written sideways in the correspondence space; addressed to Miss Florence Pound, Beach Park, Ohio.
Cite this card
Merry Widow Hat comic, Beach Park, OH, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/merry-widow-hat-comic-beach-park-oh-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.
