The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card antique American watercolor set and definitely meant to represent

and definitely meant to represent a bible

Like this one

and sweet chip carved borders on both sides

I know this beautiful little carved box came from the collection of Richard “Smitty” Axtell (Skinner recently held an auction of many pieces from his collection in "Smitty's Eye: The Axtell Collection") of Deposit

the cage measures 10" tall x 4 1/2" wide x 4" deep

The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card antique American watercolor set and definitely meant to representToo fun to resist, and I thought surely this one would make the perfect gift for the runner of an auction house, or for someone regularly on the other end of things, watching things as they are going going gone! I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child, and it seems to be quite a rare one an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, which would go on top become A&P. (Founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company", within a