SOLD C. 1900 Pennsylvania School Boy Drawing of Man and Horse, Bird and Horse Head on Reverse walnut head and better still one of

and better still one of them which is really quite ingenious in its construction and the manual dexterity challenges it presents (as well as the creative possibilities for configuration it allows)

with this ambiguous architectural structure at the center

looking for ones that are either pretty unusual or have amazing old painted surfaces

Handmade boxes with surprise carved snakes inside seem to have become a thing right around 1900

and matching the black of the rest of the hide

SOLD C. 1900 Pennsylvania School Boy Drawing of Man and Horse, Bird and Horse Head on Reverse walnut head and better still one ofI feel like the man in red with arms crossed on this one would make a great tattoo, and perhaps the bird on reverse, too! Harder and harder to find these sorts of drawings, this one done by Henry Hagy of Lancaster, PA, who signed it on the bird side in the same red ink he used to annotate the drawings in fancifully dotted cursive, best of all the matter of fact "This is a Horse Head." There are a couple of stains and one can see through a bit to the