Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing magic match with paddle in one hand

with paddle in one hand and what I take for a spear in the other

The surface shows some age

so would have done this over the course of the following year

Quite a rare and special feeling thing

Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing magic match with paddle in one handPure joy. I am forever looking for antique children's drawings like this, but finding them rarer and rarer to come by and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one and the content of it, too! is just about as good as it gets. Pretty fantastic alphabet following Emma's name (I believe with an upside down M) on one side with woman and chicken and house with especially excellent array of widow treatments; and then on the other, another excellent