Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 stencil painted playing cards But the cards themselves are

But the cards themselves are great too

resulting in the loss of a portion of the outer shell on the face

to their lined up little toes

seemingly infused with the special attachments of whoever painted them

and then this lovely whisper of long stalk in hand

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 stencil painted playing cards But the cards themselves areI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with lovely blue and purple star, excellent inked handwriting, and little hand pointing to a pine stump, too! (And a White Oak marking another corner.) As detailed at one end, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Andrew J. Waller in 1878, showing a 31 acre plot on the south side of South