Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets and all the better for

and all the better for the residue of old writing on the slate

Altogether pretty cool

this set has been supplemented with some thinner bone spellicans

The ledge where a painting/framed whatever would be placed measures 7 13/16" across

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

Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets and all the better forWhoever 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