Beautiful Small Two Piece Carved Black Duck glass panel hand-drawn in black and yellow

hand-drawn in black and yellow ink and mailed in 1907 from Halifax

which were sold together in one box--are among the rarer among them

This 19th century sketchbook of a Mary Elizabeth Greene has seen better days

The hand of the boy is lost if it ever existed

very readable (though writing is sometimes pretty small

Beautiful Small Two Piece Carved Black Duck glass panel hand-drawn in black and yellowThis 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, in significant part I think due to the head having been carved from a separate piece of wood than the body, which, together with the sensitive carving of the form, makes me think perhaps caved by a practiced decoy maker. Primitive, elegant, distinctive, and to my eye quite a perfect thing. 4 7 8 l x 2 t x 1 7 8 w