Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah carved flowers and especially the crooked mouth

and especially the crooked mouth filled with a mix of gold and black teeth

but they also produced slates

all carved from one piece of wood

There is one small chip to the handle as pictured

I believe the other heads are on posts too

Bird In (On) Hand, Old Handmade Valentine with Poem from Beulah carved flowers and especially the crooked mouthA charming old valentine or love note, all the better for being signed by a miss Beulah, who hand wrote a poem inside expressing "all my love for you." Great hand (looking a little like a talon), great bird, and I love how they arch in opposite directions. 5" x 3 5 8", very good condition, with decoratively cut edges. Early 20th c. I believe.