Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah cricket game The features are in fact

The features are in fact utilitarian ones

with just a couple of areas of spotting

some text visible from the cigar box wood from which it was made

almost reverent little painting I think

Looks maybe like partially cleaned on the face at some point

Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah cricket game The features are in factA 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.