Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat or a great tray for

or a great tray for arranging bowls and boxes and objects atop

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

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

and formed the hub of a model train set up

frame 13" x 9 3/4”

Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat or a great tray forMore 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