Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets perfect for heavy use

perfect for heavy use

you can distinguish that there are four distinct suits to these

and seem to be just  a hair larger in size than later iterations

When I grabbed this wonderful old wooden bowl at a recent sale

Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets perfect for heavy useWhoever made this drawing, or whoever accepted it in lieu of 5 cents, must have thought pretty highly of it, as 5 cents would have gone quite a ways then. Or, perhaps the smoking figure at top represents the owner of a farm, owing 5 cents to the hoeing laborer below, reminding one a bit of Venmo transaction emojis now! Whatever the case, its endurance over a century and a quarter or so certainly attest to its value to at least a few someones, and of