Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings display card firmly stitched together

firmly stitched together

I'm never quire sure with a carved boot of this near full sized scale whether it was a folk creation or a cobbler's display piece

and the letters "M" and "N" in black

I really love the mother pig with bunch of piglets running around on this

Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings display card firmly stitched togetherSome things call to me and then some things get my heart racing fast and this is very much one of the latter. Pure and total joy. These sorts of things are getting harder and harder to find, and more and more precious when they surface and no wonder! C. 1850, purchased from a dealer in Vermont, with six watercolored drawings in it, each captioned in that very best sort of all caps child's lettering, the child in this case a young Walter Easton, who