Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed wooden toy I believe from either the

I believe from either the German Schwarzwald mountain region in southwestern Germany

with at least half a dozen different browns incorporated

Made entirely of natural (un-dyed) ash splint of varied widths

and the overall effect it creates of glimpsing into a private world

and there is a nice

Columbia University 1910 Murad Tobacco Silk Runner, Framed wooden toy I believe from either theI purchased this piece because I loved the image of this pink cheeked runner in his white outfit and those brown shoes that don't look especially great for running! I've since learned this is a collegiate tobacco silk; dating to the early 1910s, these silks were issued by Murad cigarettes to entice smokers, college students specifically, to buy their cigarettes. For each college or university targeted, they issued a set of 10 of these depicting