Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings eskimo art exhibition this box--with an interior tray

this box--with an interior tray that signifies it as a jewelry box--feels like an incredibly tender thing: contextualizing this woman amid her farm animals

1870s or so and made in Germany I might guess

2 1/4" x 3 3/8"

and then that eye ball looking out of the corner of the eye

4 3/4" x 3 3/4" framed

Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings eskimo art exhibition this box--with an interior trayPure joy finding this one amid a pile at an antiques shop in New Hampshire this week eaily overlooked, but I've developed a special radar for things like this! All but one page that is signed V. McClure appear to be the work of a young Kenneth Playfair (such a great name), with the year 1918 on the cover, but some of the drawings inside dated 1923. The pages are perforated, and most have come partially or all the way loose making them all the easier