Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony (There are two holes in

(There are two holes in her backside

but finding them rarer and rarer to come by--and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one--and the content of it

also has a bit of a lumpiness to the form

I can't imagine a more charming set of Old Maid cards than these

Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony (There are two holes inWith a little digging I figured out that the Combination Cash store captured here in 1906 in flames was a wholesale and retail department store located at 88 Merchant's Row in downtown Rutland, Vermont. (It was destroyed door, but rebuilt quickly after, and was a longtime neighbor to Woolworth's.) I didn't know that when I purchased it; it's just hard to argue with the beauty of a an early photo of a building on fire, even while tragic. And for me the