I'd need a very great deal of persuasion! A stack of 100 of these in ''the vaults'' for example. Until some such evidence is uncovered I will not believe it's Bing.

Here is the reply from the seller:

Dear lobosco107,

No problem with your opinion, any reasoning behind your scepticism? I,m willing to listen to your reasoning as I lived in Spokane for 15 years and purchased it from a well known postcard dealer there.

Looking forward to hearing from you.


- spocsa

Not sold - it had no bids. Not surprising with an asking price of $200, and to say the least, uncertain provenance.

My knowledge of early postcards is less than zero, but roaming around on the internet I found many examples of postcards from 1900 or thereabouts and onwards depicting a variety of country scenes with what I take to be anonymous models posing to assist in the depiction. There is no suggestion in most of these that they are intended to be of specific families or personages.  The CYKO stamp appears on much earlier cards and I do wonder whether the picture is earlier than the 1920s anyway - the general style looks so to me. 

The character that might very remotely possibly be Bing looks almost as if he is deliberately posing to have a stupid expression!