Three Women and a Bank Robber 1920s Pencil Drawing on Bank Stationary English woolen sampler with their three point welded

with their three point welded handles

Oilcloth (also known as American cloth) was traditionally made through a fairly labor-intensive process of treating close-woven cotton or linen cloth (I believe this is linen) with a coating of boiled linseed oil to make it waterproof

Very skillfully done

Links are about 2 inches long by 1 inch wide

Three Women and a Bank Robber 1920s Pencil Drawing on Bank Stationary English woolen sampler with their three point weldedThe drawing of the girl at the bottom with fantastic skirt extending many times wider than her outstretched arms is what first sold me on this, but really I think its perfection lies in the interplay of all of its parts. I understand from the seller I purchased this from that the artist was an employee at the Bedford National Bank in Bedford, Iowa, and the use of the letterhead is definitely part of what makes this great, giving specificity to the