Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring Egyptian ibis a UNESCO world heritage site

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

When he posted these I snatched them up immediately--I think they are just extraordinarily beautiful

The cat (lioness

The set includes 21 graphite drawings on 3"x5" cards

and am learning along the way

Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring Egyptian ibis a UNESCO world heritage siteMy love for antique rewards of merit is ever growing (and I've just order a used copy of the definitive book on them, by Patricia Fenn and Alfred P. Malpa) but it is mostly ones from the earlier rather than the late 19th century that I'm interested in. I bought a larger lot of them at a show last week in order to get these lovelies, and this group of six seemed a nice small group to list as a set, I believe the right center and right lower one the