Victorian Easter Greetings Card with Boy & Floral Egg Carriage

A golden egg-carriage and a small boy in military dress imply a peculiar vision of Easter celebration: the child, dressed in a double-breasted blue military coat, matching shorts, and tall brown boots, is pushing — not pulling — a four-wheeled carriage containing an Easter egg roughly the size of his torso, because nothing says 'resurrection of Christ' like child labor and surreal scale. The egg, festooned with white daisies and topped with a jaunty red-and-green ribbon bow, sits in its wheeled conveyance with the dignity of a dignitary, while the boy behind it has the thousand-yard stare of someone who has accepted his egg-transport destiny without question. The gold embossed brick-pattern background adds a touch of 'imperial throne room,' because of course this child deserves a palatial setting for his egg-hauling duties. 'Easter Greetings,' reads the caption, which is doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting.