Here's an interesting, and very old postcard I found the other day: a happy couple casually hanging out together, with her smiling and pointing her finger at him (while showing off her ankle), and projecting a playful, stern warning: "Now, behave if you can." So, initially I think the guy was doing just fine in the behavioral department, that is, until the postcard itself was mailed, because apparently the smudgy inked post office postmark was incorrectly applied to the wrong side of the postcard-- thus giving the man a strange demonic appearance! With his multi-horned crown, hollow black eyes, bat-winged mustache, and goatee-- why, he looks the absolute opposite of good behavior now! (NOTE: The woman was never seen nor heard from again.)
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I wonder if this image is composited? The background is a backdrop, and I assume it was photographed at once, but the there looks to be some editing (look around the woman's left leg.) Certainly would have been a lot more work back in the day! Now you can do this with your phone but it would take photographer, chemist, guy with exacto, etc.
I have a different view of the postage mark -- the woman is a succubus and she's beaming waves of black evil at the man (through her finger) to curse his soul. Which makes the behave line all the more evil ... "if you can, under my power!"
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