Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber which looks to me as

which looks to me as if pretty subtly grain painted

Not at all a masterful painting

Really fun

this would no doubt be it

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber which looks to me asI would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them! I like these two as a pair for the array of birds represented an owl and what looks to me like some bird of a prey on the top one, and an eagle on the other. Both hand colored, both dating to the mid 19th c I believe, and both presented