Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite with some toning

with some toning

but at this point usually hold back unless they are really special ones

with that higher pair of eyes evincing those of an owl

I just love this image--taken in the very early days of the Salvation Army's existence in the United States

with the three other species in its set in green

Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite with some toningNot my usual sort of thing, but I do try to be open to everything, and the hand drawn cartoons on the face of this much battered skateboard deck struck me as contemporary versions of a antique folk art sandpaper drawings! And, like those naive 19th century drawings of landscapes and castles and sailboats on water, these drawings of personified bong and joint and bottle of pills are very much of their time! The reverse is really quite beautiful too,