Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor to my eye only enhancing

to my eye only enhancing its beauty

very minor scratches on the surface of the wood and a bit of wear around the lip of the bottom half where it meets the lid

A concluding section features statements from the architects

and this is one of my favorites I've found

Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor to my eye only enhancingHow could I resist a trade card that also delivered fortunes based on the shape of one's hand?! I think it's really great looking on the front with this fan formed by hands and shells on the corners, and then on the back we learn that the "spatulate hand" indicates an often tyrannical disposition, while pointy hands mean love of beauty (though excessive imagination!) and then all sorts of details about square hands including reading of the lines of