Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring Egyptian ibis When he posted these I

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

The crank still turns perfectly

The underside of the drawers on this one are indeed orange

which read "Patented 1889

with just the right amount of whittling to make it smooth and useful

Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring Egyptian ibis When he posted these IMy 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