Old Maid Prize, Black Ink Drawing Signed F.A, 1892 handmade jackstraws I'd guess these are just

I'd guess these are just a bit older than that

Just a beauty of a vase--super sculptural

About 50 marbles--exactly as shown

amplifying a sense of sisterhood

with a nice red velvet-covered writing slope inside

Old Maid Prize, Black Ink Drawing Signed F.A, 1892 handmade jackstraws I'd guess these are justAt first I thought this antique merit award type drawing was a snarky, or tongue in cheek portrait of an old spinster, which, as a happily unmarried woman in her late 40's, appealed to me personally, but then I realized it was surely a prize for the winner of what must have been a fierce Old Maid card game, or maybe long stretch of games. And indeed, Old Maid in its current incarnation dates to the early 1880s, popular in England as well as in the U.