Lisl's Charming Early 20th c. German Homemade Ink and Watercolor Flower Species Cards carved handle meat fork with hand-tinted cheeks

with hand-tinted cheeks

Box measures 9 1/2" x 4 3/8" x 7/8"

it definitely seems to me we are meant to understand the white rooster as the instigator of the whole situation

and of course I am always thrilled to find little drawings like this

the importance of practice

Lisl's Charming Early 20th c. German Homemade Ink and Watercolor Flower Species Cards carved handle meat fork with hand-tinted cheeksI'm always searching for handmade decks of playing cards of all kinds, and for hand drawn flashcards too, and these lovely c, 1910s German ink and watercolor cards are like both at once: a rummy type game of sets, and a lesson in botany and German too! Forty cards total, comprised of 10 sets of four Violaceen (violets), Lwenzahn (dandelions, etc.) with each card illustrating a particular species, its name inked (in perfect Arts and Crafts era font) in