Batter and Catcher, Antique Baseball Real Photo Postcard carved tamper together with the crown

together with the crown

Cat is 16 1/8" tall

There is a bit of a tendency of round boxes like this to warp as the wood expands and contracts

5” long x 2” wide  x 5” tall

Batter and Catcher, Antique Baseball Real Photo Postcard carved tamper together with the crownI love the game of baseball, in no small part for the aesthetics of the game, from the geometries of the field to the uniforms to the gestures of the throw and swing and catch. As so of course I fell in love with this photograph, and especially the interplay of these two bodies, the batter standing over a home plate laid in the grass holding his bat low, and the catcher behind him glove raised and torso cocked forward, it appears just having caught a