A postcard, "A Leap Year Proposal," 1908. The postcard is in color and embossed decorated with flowers and a ship anchor. A red mitten has been pasted onto the front with a poem, "If with my charms / You are not smitten / Send me back this / Little Mitten." There is an ink inscription on the reverse as well as a used postage stamp. The postcard was printed in 1908, a leap year, in which it was socially acceptable for women to propose marriage. The postcard is in good condition with minor surface soiling.
