This may amuse you, or at least change the way you look at social media. Today we are going to talk about "bloomscrolling", or looking for beautiful flowers in your daily feed to cheer you up - the total opposite of "doomscrolling" which is looking for not so beautiful things that make you despair. I did not invent the term but The Mercury News knows who did.
Here we have bloomscrolling as it was a hundred and twenty years before the term was invented. It shows a beautiful flower and a pretty girl, or her head anyway. And it would have excited the original finder of the card no end, though I have to say that if he had handed it to a really small boy they would have been less impressed, because they would have rather had a cowboy, or a pirate. Your tastes change as you grow up (though I admit I would still rather have a cowboy or a pirate).
Sadly the card is not titled, and not backlisted so the flower is not identifiable to me other than a guess that it might be a carnation? But do please show those in your life who are more into flowers, and I await to hear what they, or you, come up with. Also by showing of cards to those who never see them, or only imagine they are of more masculine interest, you may get a little stirring begin, and even a possible new collector....
For some reason when I originally wrote this up I did so in the belief it was an American Tobacco Co. card, but though the backs are very similar it is plainly identified as being by British American Tobacco - in fact the only differences are in the "net" cartouche, where the first line reads either "British" (as we show here) or "The" and the fourth line reads either "Ltd" (as we show here) or has a circle and lines design.
As to why I did not notice, I can only plead too much excitement as that was the week I went up to London for "that" concert, twice, once the evening before this card appeared, and then again the evening after.