Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor This really lovely West German

This really lovely West German mid-century vase I believe was made by Steuler

with a terrific green glaze around the body

though just playing as a solitaire endeavor is pretty consuming too

and this is one of my favorites I've found

to my eye only enhancing its beauty

Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor This really lovely West GermanHow could I resist a trade card that also delivered fortunes based on the shape of one's hand?! I think it's really great looking on the front with this fan formed by hands and shells on the corners, and then on the back we learn that the "spatulate hand" indicates an often tyrannical disposition, while pointy hands mean love of beauty (though excessive imagination!) and then all sorts of details about square hands including reading of the lines of