Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing magic match with paddle in one hand

with paddle in one hand and what I take for a spear in the other

was happy to come across this big gray corduroy bag filled with a whole bunch of them

with irregularly shaped head and ears and a rectangle nailed on top of the body for a tail

Quite a rare and special feeling thing

The surface shows some age

Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing magic match with paddle in one handPure joy. I am forever looking for antique children's drawings like this, but finding them rarer and rarer to come by and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one and the content of it, too! is just about as good as it gets. Pretty fantastic alphabet following Emma's name (I believe with an upside down M) on one side with woman and chicken and house with especially excellent array of widow treatments; and then on the other, another excellent