1930s Stamp Art Collage Birthday Card Kikuyu all of the black is

all of the black is hand-embroidered

including the  powerful queen

Stamped MB on the bottom

4 1/4" x 3 1/6"

I love the wildly irregular form of the upper half with its fat rolled lip (and one giant air bubble) and then this bulb like base

1930s Stamp Art Collage Birthday Card Kikuyu all of the black isThese old stamp art creations always amaze and amuse me such resourcefulness! and I especially love the hand drawn elements in this one, including a hand written birthday poem (which demystifies the object the two ladies are facing, which must indeed be a lamp post!) The Adams stamp dates this one to the late 1930s or so, and it remains in pretty much mint condition, ready for extending birthday greetings now to someone special! 3 1 2" x 5 1 2" on