Art Nouveau Harp Greeting Card with Shamrocks - Let Erin Remember

What strikes you immediately is the harp's ornate gilded column topped with what appears to be a small carved figure — because when you think 'nostalgic St. Patrick's Day greeting,' you naturally think of anthropomorphizing your stringed instrument with a tiny person riding the neck. The gold harp itself — Ireland's most emotionally needy national symbol — is draped in shamrock sprigs and clutches a dramatic scroll that commands 'Let Erin Remember,' because apparently Erin has been forgetting things again and needed it engraved on parchment. Signed by one Ellen H. Clapsaddle — a real woman with an unfortunately comedy-ready name — this mint-green fever dream of Celtic sentimentality was apparently deemed appropriate to mail to someone you mildly liked in the early 1900s.