Excellent Double-sided Kid Drawing #1 (Dinosaur?) vintage padlock Persimmon: 2 9/16" t x

Persimmon: 2 9/16" t x 2 3/4" wide

carved of fossilized walrus tusk

and it took me all of one second to commit to it ---many times better in person

much used and aged condition

Excellent Double-sided Kid Drawing #1 (Dinosaur?) vintage padlock Persimmon: 2 9/16" t xI have a very deep and special love for the drawings of boys aged about 7 or 8, and specifically action scenes playing out directly on the page just about as direct a line into the imagination as exists, completely visceral and immediate. And in a way I can't fully articulate, there feels a powerfully true and tender convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this. This is one of several I am listing, all by the same kid. Here I take it for