19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work but earnest ones like this

but earnest ones like this really win me

They were a folk toy made in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s

with framed out window and slide opening back

and what wonderfully painted wood on that stool)

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work but earnest ones like thisThe existence of rewards of merit makes me glad, given from teachers to students to affirm their good efforts, as does the fact that people saved them. Last weekend I found a large collection of them in a box in Midcoast Maine quite a nice variety of them, which I've divided into three groups, all listed today. The ones in this group were never filled in with the names of students, so I thought nice to group together, as one could fill them in and