Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards more rustic whimsy I just

more rustic whimsy I just listed that was the first I'd seen with interlocking movable parts

including many hold to light postcards

The newspaper is very brittle with lots of tears

In great vintage condition

This marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting"--a technique popular in the mid 19th century

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards more rustic whimsy I justThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I