Pennsylvania Rubber Co. Feather Shuttlecocks (True Flight, Remarkable Durability!) glass lantern slide 2" across at base and

2" across at base and 2 1/2" across at lip

but I found this such a striking and perfectly stark object that I could not resist it

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with compartments underneath the velvet covered writing slope in which one might keep writing paper as well as tuck a stack of correspondence received

Pennsylvania Rubber Co. Feather Shuttlecocks (True Flight, Remarkable Durability!) glass lantern slide 2" across at base andThese shuttlecocks, and the cardboard sleeve they came it (which opens at both ends) give me pure delight. First, such a great word is shuttlecock to begin with, and such a great form is the birdie, these with a skirt of white feathers and excellent green trim around the head. Then there is the sleeve, featuring language that amplifies all sorts of associations with the word "shuttlecock", announcing the 'true flight" and "remarkable durability" of