Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber Pretty decorative patterns along every

Pretty decorative patterns along every edge

and that perhaps the half inch mark was the focus

and arms clasped behind his back

This drawing is unsigned but I know dates to the late 19th century and was done by J

dating to the 1960s

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber Pretty decorative patterns along everyI would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them! I like these two as a pair for the array of birds represented an owl and what looks to me like some bird of a prey on the top one, and an eagle on the other. Both hand colored, both dating to the mid 19th c I believe, and both presented