Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring antique dried flower having looked at a wide

having looked at a wide variety of Theli bags

Good structural condition

and the beautiful piece of amber is set off perfectly by the finely detailed intertwining silver leaves

" still attached to its back

Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring antique dried flower having looked at a wideMy love for antique rewards of merit is ever growing (and I've just order a used copy of the definitive book on them, by Patricia Fenn and Alfred P. Malpa) but it is mostly ones from the earlier rather than the late 19th century that I'm interested in. I bought a larger lot of them at a show last week in order to get these lovelies, and this group of six seemed a nice small group to list as a set, I believe the right center and right lower one the