By now I have found several cards with common features: a text-box within a floral or garden background. These small (3⅛" x 2⅞") cards have a large blank quadrangle within the picture, often a picture of a fable.
1883 FK card advertising "Programme, July 4th, 1883. Kansas Weekly Journal. $1.50 Per Year. Try It." $5 from an unknown source, Feb., '18.
This card's picture echoes that of another by Universal Advertising Company advertising their Aesop's Fable Cards, including six designs. The date of the program anchors the production of these cards in the early 1880's.
This program on the verso runs from the morning parade at 10 a.m. to the the evening's fireworks and open-air concert. A hint at the target audience comes from the advertising comment on the verso starting "When in the city to-day."
2004 Unframed Cross stitch of FC. 11.2" x 7.5". Image 6.6" x 4.25". Unknown source.
Imagine my surprise when I found an exact copy unframed. Can we assume that a pattern was somewhere published and many people followed the pattern? Like the framed copy above, this is very nice work! As there, the crow is perched on top of a roof rather than in a tree. The composition is lovely. Trees on either side frame the house together with the two characters.
