Young Man with Many Animals, Curious Old Real Photo Postcard miniature billiard balls but it seems curious that

but it seems curious that each hour would be divided into five rather than six segments

This 19th c

There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there--many decorated with burned designs like these

and first recorded by Byron G

no flaws that I can see

Young Man with Many Animals, Curious Old Real Photo Postcard miniature billiard balls but it seems curious thatI would really love to know everything about the young man in this photo, who appears to have a rat perched atop his hat, a bird on his shoulder, a dog in one hand and what? a log??? in the other! An animal whisperer one has to think! And perhaps it was termites infesting the log, or fleas infesting the dog, that left what appears to be a trail of almost microscopic little bites across the surface of the photo, which I can't feel at all on the