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Vintage French hand-colored Easter postcard reading “Joyeuses Pâques!” meaning “Happy Easter!” Wonderful unusual illustration of a stylish woman in a purple dress offering a tiny glass of liquor to a classical bust on a pedestal. The drink has a decadent old-world feel and could appeal to collectors of absinthe, liqueur, barware, French café culture, and odd holiday postcards, though the card itself does not specifically identify it as absinthe. The scene is playful and strange — almost like the woman is making an Easter toast to the bust, giving it a surreal antique humor feel. Back reads “Joyeuses Pâques — Amabilités,” roughly “Happy Easter — Courtesies / Kind regards,” Series 352, Paris publisher/printing line. Approx era: early 1900s, likely 1910s–1920s. Condition: light age toning, handling wear, and corner/edge wear as shown. Unused back.