Picture Pc With Message Area Covered

I have this PC with this silver box .. any ideas? Thanks

Q/ Covers a lock of his hair? <=== SWAG (Silly Wild-Assed Guess)

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Looks pretty mysterious. If there is a private message under the patch, why didn't the addressee remove it? And if it is something else, wouldn't the addressee be curious enough to want to know what is covered up?

It is a salvaged card.

By the late 1800's it had become common practice to salvage preprinted postal cards which contained obsolete business messages by coating cards with opaque ink to allow for printing a new address or message. Several companies did this salvage coating as a considerable part of their business. Though not commonly encountered today, here is such an example:



I believe the original poster's card is such an example of a salvaged private card and probably had a preprinted message (salesman will-call notice?) covered up. It may be readable with the right lighting.

Nice solution.
I was tempted to offer a suggestion of a silk cachet.
I have had a few PC's that looked similar, after the silk had come adrift.

Thanks John, Probably had a printed message that was covered up.. Has to be more cards around.. why do just one? card only cost a penny..

as you can see he wrote with green on the silver paper, perhaps make a photo under oblique light to see it.

Bobone, You basically answered your own question. They didn't do just one - but their scarcity today is a matter of survival rates. These would have been done in bulk. For example when a business folds, its stock of pre-printed cards would be overprinted with the opaque ink coating to enable reuse - thus I called it a salvaged card in my first post. Call it thrifty recycling.