Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah carved flowers but they also produced slates

but they also produced slates

I believe the other heads are on posts too

-- I have now learned that it is shaped like a Durian fruit

and especially the crooked mouth filled with a mix of gold and black teeth

These are exactly the sort I like--very earthy

Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah carved flowers but they also produced slatesA charming old valentine or love note, all the better for being signed by a miss Beulah, who hand wrote a poem inside expressing "all my love for you." Great hand (looking a little like a talon), great bird, and I love how they arch in opposite directions. 5" x 3 5 8", very good condition, with decoratively cut edges. Early 20th c. I believe.