Carver’s Mythic Chair Punch Paper Embroidery rubber stamps set And also a perfect embodiment

And also a perfect embodiment of why I love these old hand-drawn postcards so much--such effort and creativity invested in sending a note

8 stacked chip carved layers on the pocket

but I don't think ever one as large as this

I'd guess early-ish 20th century

rendered in that amazing Persian blue with green belly and wings

Carver’s Mythic Chair Punch Paper Embroidery rubber stamps set And also a perfect embodimentThis is one of a few small punch paper embroideries I dug out of a box in New Hampshire this week, and from what Ive seen it is quite an unusual one, which I especially love for its stoicism and the manner in which it so matter of factly references a history that has since been dispelled. Pilgrim Jon Carved supposedly carried the chair to Plymouth on the Mayflower ship in 1620, but historians now believe it is highly unlikely, given the risky trip and