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Boy Riding Bird with Dog, Naive Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing, c. 1880s 1800s letterpress 2 1/2" tall

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2 1/2" tall

C (Pharmaceutical Chemist

I'm a complete sucker for a handmade toy boat

or like a small lean-to sort of structure

This one I believe is more than a hundred years old and really beautifully done

Boy Riding Bird with Dog, Naive Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing, c. 1880s 1800s letterpress 2 1/2" tallFound in, and of Pennsylvania, I believe and done on the reverse side of a page from a Kate Greenway drawing book, c. 1880s I believe. Children riding birds (especially Turkeys it seems!) appear to have been a fairly popular subject, featured on Victorian trade cards and the like. But I've definitely not found another including a dog named Dash following behind, his name written on his collar here. And a horn at the hip of this little boy (or little

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