Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table The "17 or Glory" on

The "17 or Glory" on this back of this antique British playing card refers to the 17th Lancers

8 3/16" t x 6 1/8" w x 3/8" d

with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face

I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so just swooned when I saw these

with sumi ink characters on the front and back covers

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table The "17 or Glory" onThis envelope alone feels like a novel to me and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R. F. Lovelee? This R. F Lovelee presumably was staying at the Seneca Hotel, built in 1847 in the French Renaissance manner, and by the 1920s Rochester's largest hotel, with over 500 rooms. But if this letter, mailed two months before the stock market crash that would launch the Great Depression, ever reached her, it appears