Your Teacher is Glad to Commend You...Curious JH Adair 1905 Tombstone Drawing with Cross, and Crown vintage needlework Obvious dryness and cracking as

Obvious dryness and cracking as well as paint loss

I'd never actually sat down and used one of these before

Makah baskets very similar to this one

I've seen a few other West German wooden figures from the same era

I purchased it from a favorite shop in Vermont--a beautifully curated and arranged sprawling trove of treasures--and know it came from an old private collection in the U

Your Teacher is Glad to Commend You...Curious JH Adair 1905 Tombstone Drawing with Cross, and Crown vintage needlework Obvious dryness and cracking asOne of two final drawings today by a young J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, c. 1905, which I purchased together this one the most curious of the bunch. Looks to me like our young J. H has drawn his own tombstone here death by Sunday school??? I'n not entirely sure, but love the cross and crown and vines and dove flying heavenward and the implication that prompt attendance and good lessons would be the sum of one's greatest achievements! And then on the