including for this punched edge on a second piece of paper to which it was attached
with a simple set of instructions still inside--basically
Such a fantastic image
fluttery leaves behind him and spiky ones running in a diagonal to frame his leg
including one with this brilliant bit: "it is the mind that makes the charm / of travel or quiet / It is the mind can ever form / it's own sustaining diet
Skull, Links, Compass, Flag, All Seeing Eye: Pair of Linked Locks Odd Fellows + Masonic Whimsy folk art bird including for this punched edgeA fun whimsy for an Odd Fellow, of a Freemason, or better yet both, with three links (FLT) on one lock, below a skull and cross, I believe identifying it specifically as Odd Fellows, while the square and compass on the other identifies it as Masonic. (It was not at all uncommon for men to belong to both, as was surely the case here.) Plus an all seeing eye with very fluttery eyelashes, and an American flag too. And with the carved locks themselves