19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work with these wide arms seeming

with these wide arms seeming all about delivering a big

Cards measure approx 3 1/2" x 2 3/8"

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

They were a folk toy made in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s

The wood is worn and aged

19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work with these wide arms seemingThe 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 were never filled in with the names of students, so I thought nice to group together, as one could fill them in and