Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat frame 13" x 9 3/4”

frame 13" x 9 3/4”

whatever was around to stuff inside—to my eye

and formed the hub of a model train set up

It's the drawing of the red house with marvelous snake of smoke coming from the chimney that won me--signed C

6 3/4" t x 3 1/8" w x 3 7/8" d and in great shape

Two 1880s Blair Family Letters and Envelopes with Scrawls and Little Drawings vintage carved cat frame 13" x 9 3/4”More 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