The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama native american black clay pottery The puzzles are made of

The puzzles are made of a nice weight tan chipboard with a bit of a sheen and black printed details

which is both gorgeous and unusual

making it feel like a bit of a Frankenstein

with what looks like a steam powered mail box flapping its wings as it takes off from an elevated platform

and a majority remain bound with thread

The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama native american black clay pottery The puzzles are made ofYou may be better at deciphering the long note written in very small print on the back of this real photo postcard than I, but I can decipher the date of October, 8, 1917, and the location, Seacroft. And I can make out that the diorama captured by the photographer was the creation of the child, showing the Meccano Destroyer off to "pick the huns" with huns, I believe, slang for Germans. Of course me its all about the diorama, with wonderfully folky