Humphrey Bogart with Cigarette, Charmingly Naive Vintage Graphite Drawing small glass pitcher taught me a bit of

taught me a bit of RCA history: the company's logo derived from a 1898 painting by Liverpool-based artist Francis Barraud showing his terrier Nipper listening to a phonograph

likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated

and perhaps impetus to invent some game or code or measuring system to go along with it

Most precarious is the clown topper--it is just a thin piece of wood (part of a toothpick I believe) that connects from a hole in his foot to a hole in the top of the wood dowel that elevates him

There seems to be a long history of rooster paintings

Humphrey Bogart with Cigarette, Charmingly Naive Vintage Graphite Drawing small glass pitcher taught me a bit ofJust a fun one; Humphrey Bogart forever. Rendered in graphite, charmingly naive, signed at lower right. C. 1980s I believe I found it (at Brimfield) along with a second portrait by the same person (since sold) of Tammy Faye Baker! 10 1 8" x 8 1 8" framed, under glass, inexpensive metal frame, as found. Ribbed texture of cardboard backing has resulted in some corresponding light toning, which just seems all of a piece with it.