Eight Carved Whimsy Chains Plus Ball in Cage antique clothes pin and structurally is in very

and structurally is in very good shape

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I find these very very old hand-cut playing cards heartbreakingly beautiful

super elegant

presence and absence--and that little puppy is pretty great

Eight Carved Whimsy Chains Plus Ball in Cage antique clothes pin and structurally is in veryI thought about listing these carved chains individually, but as I started photographing them it becomes clear that they are really best all as a group, feeling quite luxurious piled up together, kind of like the feeling I get seeing giant vats of richly colored spices, which you just want to run your fingers through! Pretty clearly carved by the same person, I suppose it is possible that these were all part of one continuous chain which at some point