Mickey Doyle's How to Dress and Cut Deer, Ink Drawing Stapled to Hardboard pottery tray and to pour a whisky

and to pour a whisky and set this out on a table near a fireplace on a winter's day is about the most fabulous thing I can imagine

They are made of celluloid

The maker definitely captured the drama of a dentist at work

all the more for trials he's surely been through

Mickey Doyle's How to Dress and Cut Deer, Ink Drawing Stapled to Hardboard pottery tray and to pour a whiskyAnother Brimfield favorite which the person who sold it to me had to take a picture of before parting with, not so much to remember the drawing as to remember how to properly dress a deer! Clearly the Mickey Doyle who drew it was quite proud of it, and I think must have referred to it often, as he stapled it to a piece of hardboard (and it was wrapped in plastic, too, I think perhaps to protect it from process oriented staining!) I'm always looking