Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds vintage folk art dog and the right a scissors

and the right a scissors holder

this one I believe 1941

It would certainly sell me on a full-sized pair—nicely made

There are a couple of splits to the wood on the back of two of them

and then becoming popular in Germany as well--with decks comprised of 7s through to 10s

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds vintage folk art dog and the right a scissorsI would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them! I like these two as a pair for the array of birds represented an owl and what looks to me like some bird of a prey on the top one, and an eagle on the other. Both hand colored, both dating to the mid 19th c I believe, and both presented