Batter and Catcher, Antique Baseball Real Photo Postcard carved tamper there is a little wear

there is a little wear to the wood around the hips where he is held

Cat is 16 1/8" tall

with each letter and banner and individual star carefully cut from red white or blue construction type paper and adhered to the tan colored backing paper

I only just learned that fans shaped like this are called cockade fans

Batter and Catcher, Antique Baseball Real Photo Postcard carved tamper there is a little wearI love the game of baseball, in no small part for the aesthetics of the game, from the geometries of the field to the uniforms to the gestures of the throw and swing and catch. As so of course I fell in love with this photograph, and especially the interplay of these two bodies, the batter standing over a home plate laid in the grass holding his bat low, and the catcher behind him glove raised and torso cocked forward, it appears just having caught a