Live and DIe for those We Love, Poignant and Scarce Mid 19th Century Engraved Sentiment Card boar as found: 16 3/4" x

as found: 16 3/4" x 14 7/8"

Such an excellent array of names on these oversized pinback buttons

Clearly it was used

rest of pages pages are string bound

but the metal is soft enough to press pretty flat

Live and DIe for those We Love, Poignant and Scarce Mid 19th Century Engraved Sentiment Card boar as found: 16 3/4" xI believe this small card, which I would call a "sentiment card" of sorts (different that a calling card, that would bear the caller's name) is early Civil War era, especially as I take that for an eagle protecting her nest. I can't find another like it anywhere out there, but I did find a 1861 pro Union print, published by E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, titled The Eagles Nest, which I've included in photos and which, like this, has a definite ferocity to