We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon man with goatee and the reusability of the

and the reusability of the cards was among their selling points—no messy crayons or paints

All seams tightly held

deep brown coarse stoneware

though I did test the end of one

the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon man with goatee and the reusability of theWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the