Vintage Blank Photo Postcard Ephemera, Happy Mail, Gallery Wall

📸 Front (Image & Style) Publisher/Mark: AXIS 731 (bottom left). AXIS was a French publisher well-known for sentimental and romantic real photo postcards. Scene: A fashionable young couple in a staged embrace, surrounded by lush potted flowers. His hand on her chin, her coy glance — classic turn-of-the-century staged intimacy. Caption (French): “Le baiser est un fruit qu’on cueille en souriant, Et que l’on croque à deux lorsque l’on a vingt ans.” Translation: “A kiss is a fruit one plucks with a smile, and that one bites into together at twenty years old.” Style Influence: Edwardian romantic photography meets late Art Nouveau decorative framing (floral overload, painterly backdrop). ✉️ Back Unused postcard — no message, stamp, or postmark. Standard French “CARTE POSTALE” layout, circa 1905–1915. 📝 Condition Very good overall — sharp edges, some light toning and faint marks from age. Image coloring still crisp: soft tinting in florals and clothing. Great for: 📮 Sending actual snail mail with retro flair 📓 Junk journaling, scrapbooks & mixed-media art 🖼️ Framing for home décor or gallery walls ✒️ Collecting for the historical value