19th C. Naive Double-Sided Graphite Drawing: Pigs and Birds desk accessory The letters are in relief

The letters are in relief and painted yellow

Likely these were done as mourning braids

a spool for the barrel of the engine

a great creature I think

19th C. Naive Double-Sided Graphite Drawing: Pigs and Birds desk accessory The letters are in reliefThis is among of a number of drawings I have listed am listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I really love the mother pig with bunch of piglets running around on this, with some darks stains at right that feel quite appropriately like mud! Nicely drawn barn in the background too, and then a couple of exotic birds in