Victorian Birthday Greetings Card with Swallows & Clover

The three iridescent teal swallows seem convinced that nesting on a red brick ledge surrounded by four-leaf clovers and forget-me-nots is a festive and not at all ominous way to mark someone's birth, sent from Erie, PA on March 15, 1907. One bird sits beside a woven nest with the stoic gravitas of a Victorian CEO, while a second swoops in dramatically carrying a sprig of something in its beak — because apparently even the wildlife had deadlines to meet. Uncle Mit signed it in looping cursive that suggests either deep affection or a man who'd been at the brandy since noon, and the whole composition radiates the era's signature energy: 'We have clover AND birds AND gold vine flourishes, and if you are not moved, you are simply not trying.'