Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat and hitting the target at

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

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

and formed the hub of a model train set up

frame 13" x 9 3/4”

whatever was around to stuff inside—to my eye

Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat and hitting the target atMore 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