Sounds like *Amanita muscaria* -- the original magic mushroom...
 
 
 
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On Mon, 9 May 1994, Chris wrote:
 
> One recent accession is a "Birthday Greeting" postcard from ca 1910,
> made in Germany, A.S.B. shield 319, showing a girl, boy at a well, and
> basket full to overflowing with horseshoes, four leaf clovers, and
> ==>mushrooms with caps red with white speckles, white stems.  The first
> two I understand, but what is the significance of the mushrooms???
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> Chris Bobbitt, Curator of Collections
> Monroe Co. Historical Museum, Bloomington, IN
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