Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor with a terrific green glaze

with a terrific green glaze around the body

and what a great one

to keep snuff or precious gems safely very sealed inside

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

to my eye only enhancing its beauty

Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card gray scale watercolor with a terrific green glazeHow 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