19th Century Rewards of Merit - Group Two (On Card, c. 1840s-70s) carved bone jewelry stained a deep brown

stained a deep brown

The basement flooded this week

with general wear and the one tiny rough spot/repainting over a tiny chip to rim

and was happy to find another

19th Century Rewards of Merit - Group Two (On Card, c. 1840s-70s) carved bone jewelry stained a deep brownThe 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 are all printed on card, are relatively early examples (c. 1840s 70s or so), and many of them are hand colored. To my