C. 1912 Chicks for Sale / W. F. Fancher Athletics Illustration handmade paper dolls but which I don't think

but which I don't think really detract

I can just picture a Christmas window display at the old B Altman's on Fifth Avenue (c

At first I thought this might be a box made to hold playing cards

wonderfully animated by a little black-hatted man with three grazing and resting cows and tiny little dog scampering across the brick bridge at the center--the perfect final touch

C. 1912 Chicks for Sale / W. F. Fancher Athletics Illustration handmade paper dolls but which I don't thinkThis came from a big lot of drawings by a W. F Fancher done as part of illustration class, most marked up with comments and corrections by his instructor. I have a feeling Fancher repurposed the watercolor Chicks for Sale sign in order to make his athletics illustration, but the former is the side I really love including for the little tears and holes, as if the chicks went to work on it! Just sort of a perfect found thing. Blue watercolor lettering.