"Uneedn't" is a rare word, but it appeared on several vintage postcards.

You've seen paisleys with geometric central elements.  These are armed citadels.  Our exemplifying collage shows the stronghold Fort Independence on the paisley Castle Island, Boston Harbor.

From Harper's Monthly, 1922.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Charles Brooks, 1919.

From Social Dynamite or The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage, 1887.

Here's a tricky card from L'Oncle de l'Europe by John Grand-Carteret, 1906.

Here's a centaur from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1906.

From Life and Death or The Creeping Shadow by D. Lambden Flemming, 1873.

"The apparition of the murdered lady," from The Skeleton Horseman or the Shadow of Death, 1866.

"Tse'-xo-be (Spider), life symbol of the Osage tribe's Hon-ga (sacred person) U-ta-non-dsi (isolated one) Gens (the earth)."  From the Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1915.

"Out on a fly," from Photographic Pastimes by Hermann Schnauss, 1891.

From Curiosités Médico-Artistiques by Lucien Nass, 1907.

Here's a heading for astronomy from Science-Gossip magazine, 1899.

From The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, 1898.

Here's a watchman from The Cries of London by John Thmoas Smith, 1839.

"The devil holds the kings of Spain and France together," 1779.

Here's a precursor to Carl Sandburg's Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories.  It's "a supposed specimen of aboriginal art" discovered in New Brunswick, 1851, from the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881.