Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets and seem to be just

and seem to be just  a hair larger in size than later iterations

including for the grades and comments written on the inside by Mrs

you can distinguish that there are four distinct suits to these

5" tall not including sword

Altogether pretty cool

Good For 5 Cents Antique Ink Drawing folk art puppets and seem to be justWhoever made this drawing, or whoever accepted it in lieu of 5 cents, must have thought pretty highly of it, as 5 cents would have gone quite a ways then. Or, perhaps the smoking figure at top represents the owner of a farm, owing 5 cents to the hoeing laborer below, reminding one a bit of Venmo transaction emojis now! Whatever the case, its endurance over a century and a quarter or so certainly attest to its value to at least a few someones, and of