Set of 21 Graphite Drawings of Hand Guns on Card Catalog Index Cards collaged prints and perhaps impetus to invent

and perhaps impetus to invent some game or code or measuring system to go along with it

and blotter paper

it has some relationship with what is a very rich history and is certainly a very charming thing

some with an Little Orphan Annie sticker at the center of the top

with a little loss to the threading further down

Set of 21 Graphite Drawings of Hand Guns on Card Catalog Index Cards collaged prints and perhaps impetus to inventI know very little about guns but I sure loved finding these! The set includes 21 graphite drawings on 3"x5" cards, which look to have been salvaged from a library's card catalogue, making them indexical on two different levels, and bringing Thackery, George Elliot, Thoreau, Mark Twain, and many more into the mix. I have to imagine these were done by a boy of 13 or so, in 1940s 50s or so I'd guess, who very diligently rendered the attributes of each