Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat whatever was around to stuff

whatever was around to stuff inside—to my eye

or a great tray for arranging bowls and boxes and objects atop

It's the drawing of the red house with marvelous snake of smoke coming from the chimney that won me--signed C

and very fast if you do it right

and hitting the target at the center will pop them back up--which of course one can do manually

Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat whatever was around to stuffMore things dug from piles, these two letters and envelopes chosen primarily for their aesthetic value I love the dense flurry of letters and flourishes on one of them, and most especially the envelope reading "I had a dag bay," a sort of pig latin I assume for a bad day. Then this great bust of a woman above it, and a little man with hat and horse on reverse. One of the letters is addressed to an Atkins Blair and dated 1888, and talks a lot about a