Wonderfully Naive Antique Hand-Drawn Postcard Portrait old marbles 23 3/4" tall including post

23 3/4" tall including post

and the inside pages with charming hand-colored engravings are in fair shape

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

but pages are generally clean and in overall good shape

I've had one other old toy mold in this shop similar in construction to this birdy--which I just found along with a pig

Wonderfully Naive Antique Hand-Drawn Postcard Portrait old marbles 23 3/4" tall including postI really couldn't love this drawing more, wonderfully naive and awkward but clearly done with a great deal of sincerity and affection for the subject! Against a charcoaled background she emerges rather like a vision, with this giant hat, I guess it is, reading a bit like a halo, and or a crown! On the reverse we learn that the postcard was sent to a Mrs. Jane Holt from "Aunt Selina", with the card "penciled and drawn by Eddie himself"! Great. 3 1 2" x