Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards In great vintage condition

In great vintage condition

The newspaper is very brittle with lots of tears

This marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting"--a technique popular in the mid 19th century

the paint on it is a much brighter white

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards In great vintage conditionThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I