Card #40: Beautiful Old A&J Tool & Findings “Connecting Links” Sample Board antique watercolor drawing painted black

painted black

with tiny brass pins in some and others not

with black painted shoes that just peek out below the belly of the mule (I assume) on the reverse side

Pretty special

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Card #40: Beautiful Old A&J Tool & Findings “Connecting Links” Sample Board antique watercolor drawing painted blackI don't always know when I find them what might become my favorite things, but this is one, rewarding on many levels. Of course I love it for the header typed in red at top giving definition to its bits: "Connecting Links" and what could be better, or more essential, as a thing (and an idea) than connecting links?! Then this beautiful dense field of metal links, rounded or squared, each subtly different, with hand written numbers under each and