Hand-Drawn Pen and Ink Postcard of Cigar Smoking Man, Signed Ted Cross beautiful old brush body and tail feathers

body and tail feathers

and I've gotten pretty choosy

I am not entirely sure who is rescuing who in this wonderful old ink drawing--I think it is the bear being pulled to shore

with the popcorn beads ranging from approximately 1 to 1 1/2" in diameter

which I think is just a beautiful object I’d hang on the wall

Hand-Drawn Pen and Ink Postcard of Cigar Smoking Man, Signed Ted Cross beautiful old brush body and tail feathersI can't imagine this man was not a gangster, or at least a swindler of some sort, and her certainly looks like a smug cat with a canary in his belly! First quarter of the 20th century British and unused and done in black ink with a little blue (with white polka dots!) for the shirt collar. I haven't been able to find out anything about the Ted Cross who signed it, but would guess he drew more than one postcard! There's a large ink smear to the left of