The End of All Men | Victorian Memento Mori Gravestone DrawingRemarkable & macabre Victorian ink & pencil drawing with vivid imagery and a humorous verse. Its got everything: A weeping willow, gravestones, a skull and crossbones, and jokes. The poem reads: Reader, take warning ere it is too late (Harry, put the cattle out and shut the gate.) That after Death (Mabel, youve got my slate) And all thy Deeds (Poetry how I hate) Ill write again when alone Dating to around the 1870s, this miniature pencil and ink

We’ve all seen contemporary bride or groom figures for wedding cakes: But have you ever seen a pair of these

This would have been one of the very earliest tintypes- right around the time they started to make the switch from ambrotypes to tintypes

is made of silver plated metal

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This card is hand colored and comes in its original

Measures approximately 5” tall

They get more risqué than you’d expect and the illustrations are always funny and beautiful in equal measure

Some collectors like to use these vessels as little cauldrons for ritual or for burning incense- Knowing me I’d go the flower arrangement route

In each example

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The vases are short

It was carved from very lightweight wood