Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 stork shaped sewing scissors As its sword manufacturing business

As its sword manufacturing business was formally separated into an independent company in 1881

and impish little shoes

and though there are others fancier

and I think it could actually be an African American "fanner

Some wear to the box

Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 stork shaped sewing scissors As its sword manufacturing businessThis one makes me happy on a whole bunch of levels, not the least of which is simply the name Minny Magdalene! Very faintly at top center, framed on all sides by these exuberant decorative flourishes, is written the name Wm. Brady followed by the year 1896, telling us that it was her father that drew this (which I've confirmed through research; they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth and or maybe it