Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings Meiji This lovely old carved wooden

This lovely old carved wooden duck is small - a bit shy of 5 inches long --but has quite a wonderful presence and sense of specialness about it

The patina to dry wood on this one is especially great

And what a beautiful framing of it

but this painting immediately took me back to hiking in the Alps some thirty years ago

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings Meiji This lovely old carved woodenFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of