1884 Handwritten Letter with Butterfly and Rich History, Jackson NH early aphabets makes them as fine as

makes them as fine as any I've seen

At the top the mask is strung with sinew thread for hanging

Cards measure 5 1/2" x 3 5/16"

Photos cannot convey the magnitude of its presence

about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning

1884 Handwritten Letter with Butterfly and Rich History, Jackson NH early aphabets makes them as fine asThis makes me happy for all sorts of reasons, the first and most obvious being the tiger swallowtail butterfly hand stitched to the top of it tethered just about 140 years ago, with those two crossed stitches holding it still. "Here is a butter fly. I helped to catch. I have seen twenty of these on the road in one spot," writes the sender to "Robbie" on June 22, 1884, in the carefully printed handwriting of a child, probably of age 10 or 11. Adding to