Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds vintage folk art dog and this one feels quite

and this one feels quite historically significant

but I bought them just because I think they're fantastic looking

this one I believe 1941

Both the drawing and the marriage certificate are in very good condition

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds vintage folk art dog and this one feels quiteI would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them! I like these two as a pair for the array of birds represented an owl and what looks to me like some bird of a prey on the top one, and an eagle on the other. Both hand colored, both dating to the mid 19th c I believe, and both presented