Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) wind-up toy I think of this as

I think of this as a perfect everyday vase to keep on the kitchen counter

There is some dirt/dust adhered to the surface that one can see when closely inspected

and roughly translating to the English expression pork barrel) was an illustrated French weekly satirical magazine with anarchist political leanings that was chiefly produced between 1901 and 1912

and as if battered by wind and perhaps some sea-spray too

with wired back for hanging

Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) wind-up toy I think of this asThe existence of things like this hand drawn deck of cards made I would guess by a mother, though perhaps a French teacher, intent on teaching French vocabulary to her children makes me very happy. The game is basically rummy, where one wants to acquire all of the cards of any given set, while learning the names of fruits and vegetables and animals and games and vessels in the process! The cards are a nice weight card stock, and the drawings done in