I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape and especially love the formal

and especially love the formal echo from the side buns of her hair to the loops of her bow to the leaves and petals of the flower she holds

I assume meaning a child's size 8

giving the whole thing the feeling of a vision

Looks like oak to me

And I believe there would originally have been nine of them

I'm Still Single How are You? Mounted Photo of Very Handsome Couple on Embossed "Private Postcard", Early 20th C. spring landscape and especially love the formalWhat a strikingly handsome couple these two, and what an interesting postcard their portrait a real photo, pasted down, but the mount a pre printed postcard (first decade 1900s I believe; undivided back, 2 cent stamp) with the embossed text reading "I am still single. How are you?" I've found a few other examples of postcard mounts in just the same style as this one with other (mostly silly sorts of) embossed messages; but here, and a good part of why