Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 stencil painted playing cards fits easily in the palm

fits easily in the palm of ones hand

it looks quite crisp and bright

which certainly helps

seemingly infused with the special attachments of whoever painted them

to their lined up little toes

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 stencil painted playing cards fits easily in the palmI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with lovely blue and purple star, excellent inked handwriting, and little hand pointing to a pine stump, too! (And a White Oak marking another corner.) As detailed at one end, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Andrew J. Waller in 1878, showing a 31 acre plot on the south side of South