Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview antique metal polish A beauty of an example

A beauty of an example of an early Froebel kindergarten paper weaving

The dealer I purchased this from dated it Taisho period

so it is best laying horizontally

the center one with corn added

I'm not entirely sure if the face on this one is tiger

Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview antique metal polish A beauty of an exampleOne of two stereoviews today, both among my very favorites I've had. At first glance I took these for a cluster of button mushrooms, but a closer look, and the printed list on the reverse of the card, reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870." The compounding of the strange phenomenon that is hail with the fact of these particular hail stones having been captured as documents of a specific "Great Storm" before melting