SOLD C. 1900 Pennsylvania School Boy Drawing of Man and Horse, Bird and Horse Head on Reverse walnut head A little paint loss/wear most

A little paint loss/wear most notable around the edges of the stool and on one side of the whimsy

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

who seems to have been a popular girl

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)

SOLD C. 1900 Pennsylvania School Boy Drawing of Man and Horse, Bird and Horse Head on Reverse walnut head A little paint loss/wear mostI 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