1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates thumbprint design Very bright and shiny on

Very bright and shiny on the outside

You'll notice the glass protector over the paper label has two cracks in it and is missing one small chunk in the bottom right corner of the label

If only our days were full of lobster and champagne

S Sanitary Commission (the precursor to the American Red Cross)

The linen fabric is silky smooth and soft

1940's Alfred Meakin Audubon Bird Plates - Set of Two - John James Audubon Birds of America Luncheon Plates thumbprint design Very bright and shiny on"A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod. Learned and ignorant alike we are astonished at the spectacle. Imagine a landscape wholly American, trees, flowers, grass, even the colors of the sky and the waters, quickened with a life that is real, peculiar, trans Atlantic. On twigs, branches, bits of shore, copied by the brush with the strictest fidelity, sport the feathered races of the New World,