Randolph Madlem's Hopping Rabbits Handwritten Text Plus Turkey Drawing map holder but there is an old

but there is an old nail on the back

I'm not certain the age on these--I might guess 1940s

framed by more sticks and bits

and the irregularity of the edge of the black paint makes me think it was made to please its maker rather than for sale

Randolph Madlem's Hopping Rabbits Handwritten Text Plus Turkey Drawing map holder but there is an oldLove love love love love. The turkey drawing in crayon on one side of this paper is great, but it's Randolph Madlem's transcription of a story about hopping grass eating rabbits that breaks my heart! Somewhere midway through he gets the spelling of rabbits right, though he veers back again to adding an "e" on the end. What I love most (in addition to the way he so carefully forms his "a"s and "g"'s) is the way his writing slopes down to the right as