"Birthday Souveigner" 1891, Charming Little Homemade Booklet of Drawings and Verses mini playing cards adds up to a super

adds up to a super folky but also rather earnestly holy feeling thing

monkey eye

The larger of the two measures 6" long x 3 5/8" tall x 5/8" deep

A nicely atmospheric old oil on board painting of a pair of dangling peaches and a bunch of grapes

"Birthday Souveigner" 1891, Charming Little Homemade Booklet of Drawings and Verses mini playing cards adds up to a superJust the sort of find that makes my day, a little homemade drawing booklet dated Aug. 27, 1891, and titled "Birthday Souveigner" in watercolor on the cover, though our birthday girl did not sign her name. Two kittens in their hat, another in a shoe, and a little dog named Jack sitting behind Maggie looking like a very loyal companion. Plus a basket of fruit, a seated woman in hat ("Fashionable Press," a bit like Anna Wintour sitting in the front row),