1920s Sandusky Cement Co Medusa Playing Cards with Hand Pasted Fortunes antique cards antique games but it opens and closes

but it opens and closes with ease and provides lots of space for stashing all manner of things

and everything looks good in it--though with such an elegant sculptural form

This Japanese hand-carved cedar (Cryptomeria) horny toad is totally amazing for the manner in which its carved form brilliantly corresponds to the patterns in the grain of the wood

who looks a bit sad for being immobile--and indeed I think it is partially the fact that these personified plants wear rather complex expressions that makes this especially great

but it does fully open with just a little force

1920s Sandusky Cement Co Medusa Playing Cards with Hand Pasted Fortunes antique cards antique games but it opens and closesThis is a partial deck of c. 1920s Sandusky Cement Co playing cards, which were altered with the addition of two different fortunes cut and pasted to each card. For me, it's all about the fortunes, which offer all sorts of sage advice! But the cards themselves are great too, issued as a promotional deck by the Sandusky Cement Co a nationally known cement company founded in 1892, with offices in Cleveland and a plant at Bay Bridge near Sandusky. I know