USA Black American postcard “sure wish you would write”

Black Americana linen postcard with caricature of young African-American boy rolling pair dice, both showing one die: ‘snake eyes’.

“EYES…Sho’ does wish yo’ all would write honey”

Card # ‘288’ artist “Pat…”

Publisher name on back A “Colourpicture” Publication, Cambridge Mass. U.S.A.

Some light toning around edges

Colourpicture Publishers, Inc., was a greeting card and postcard printer and distributor in Boston, Massachusetts, on Newbury Street with a factory at 76a Atherton Street. The firm was in business between 1938 and 1969 and produced linen view cards (a linen postcard was made of textured paper of high rag content rather than actual cloth).