Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball antique odd fellows tag representing command of many media

representing command of many media

The handwritten titles are a good part of what I love about them

A very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back

there was a German portraitist Carl Jaeger

Beautifully Wonky Early 20th C. Baseball antique odd fellows tag representing command of many mediaI love old balls of many sorts, and find baseballs especially beautiful formally, and for the history of America's pastime they invoke. And most of all I love a wonky one this one even wonkier in person than photos convey. C. 1910s 20s I believe, with red and black stitches, and quite misshapen, as if having lived out in far left field through rain and snow for years before finally being found again. And so, to me, an empathetic object as well as a