Charming Handmade Miniature Library! masked real photo postcard hand-drawn in black and yellow

hand-drawn in black and yellow ink and mailed in 1907 from Halifax

is certainly very rare if not the only one of its kind

Right about the note of place at bottom left is the note: "When mus [music

and I  really like this line-drawn bird--just barely incised--that hovers mid-way between appearing and disappearing amid the reactive brown and white glaze

but I'm pretty into this watercolor/gouache

Charming Handmade Miniature Library! masked real photo postcard hand-drawn in black and yellowOh how I love whoever invested such effort and care in making these little books, each with folded and bound pages inside, all blank except for one whose first page reads Almanac! I cant quite figure out what the one with stylized writing on the front is meant to sayif you can decipher it, let me know! Im not sure if there was ever a purpose for theseperhaps a dolls library? but definitely great now lined up on some little shelf. They definitely seem