Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) wind-up toy I love the shape of

I love the shape of the middle fingers on these

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

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

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

One more pair of antique ladies legs calipers

Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) wind-up toy I love the shape ofThe 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