Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers matte glazed executed in black ink on

executed in black ink on a washi-type paper that I think was once much closer to white than it is today

it would be great for carrying a small dose of a favorite scent while traveling or just running around

an Oblate missionary

14 1/2" diameter x 2 3/4" tall

with nice twisted wire handle and all of the loops in place and connected to form a cluster

Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers matte glazed executed in black ink onThis little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers. The flowers are perfectly pretty, but it is the drawings I love, and in this case might be inclined to remove some of them from the sketchbook so as to frame them. (Happily, all drawings have blanks pages on the reverse, so