Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed Phil Sellers pottery the wood on the handle

the wood on the handle of one side reads "Real Ebony" and the other bears some text I cannot read followed by "France

or all sorts of other things

The bat is signed on the back and strung with a hanger

and the dealer I purchased it from had put a flickering flame shaped bulb in it as an added flourish

Victorian Silk and Gold Embellished Paper Lace Madonna Canivet Card in Period Framed Phil Sellers pottery the wood on the handleI'm not the least bit religious, but I find myself more and more attracted to religious icons and artifacts of all sorts, in no small part I think due to the abundance of ornament so often present, even better when some of it is gold! Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine, this I believe could technically be called a Canivet card, an art connected to small devotional images which had its origin in France in the 13th