Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat 6 3/4" t x 3

6 3/4" t x 3 1/8" w x 3 7/8" d and in great shape

and hitting the target at the center will pop them back up--which of course one can do manually

there is some wear to the finish on the reverse side in a few spots

and formed the hub of a model train set up

minor crazing

Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat 6 3/4" t x 3More things dug from piles, these two letters and envelopes chosen primarily for their aesthetic value I love the dense flurry of letters and flourishes on one of them, and most especially the envelope reading "I had a dag bay," a sort of pig latin I assume for a bad day. Then this great bust of a woman above it, and a little man with hat and horse on reverse. One of the letters is addressed to an Atkins Blair and dated 1888, and talks a lot about a