Produced during the short period in postcard history (brekkie of June 8th thru tea on the 12th, 1943) when postcards dispensed with the photographic arts entirely, relying solely on the skills of the inker and painter to capture a moment distilled in time, comes this curious specimen - a muddy card focusing on adventurer and dinosaur expert Tate Abernathy, his mock Tudorbethan home in West Brentwood Highlands, California, and, most curiously, the creature seen galumphing along his sidewalk.
Found by Abernathy and his team in an abandoned rail car on a desolate siding along the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway near Krasnoyarsk, the creature was no dinosaur - how could it be?
Though Abernathy welcomed the puzzling creature (whom he named Abigail Caitlin McLaughlin) into his home - well, into his backyard and into the small tin shed at the side of the property - he found the caresses of her rough, cat-like tongue unnerving, yet luxuriant.
He had mixed feelings upon finding Abigail belly-up in the Japanese jellyfish pond, she having eaten all twelve of his prized jellies, though only two of them were thought to be poisonous.
