The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama dansk japan created by catching strands of

created by catching strands of grass under select stiches

with some nice irregularity to the form and weaving original to its making

which makes me love it even more

and marked (using knots or tie marks) at certain intervals

Base is 5” long measured on the square x 1 1/2” d

The "Meccano Destroyer" Speeding Along, WW1 RPPC of Folk Art Diorama dansk japan created by catching strands ofYou may be better at deciphering the long note written in very small print on the back of this real photo postcard than I, but I can decipher the date of October, 8, 1917, and the location, Seacroft. And I can make out that the diorama captured by the photographer was the creation of the child, showing the Meccano Destroyer off to "pick the huns" with huns, I believe, slang for Germans. Of course me its all about the diorama, with wonderfully folky