Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy There is one tiny brown

There is one tiny brown spot on the paper near the body of the mouse and a visible "frame" on the paper where it lightened with age except where it was previously covered by a mat around the edges

Good vintage condition with some aging/darkening to the tin

I have found mention of a Morning Star Stove Manufacturing Company established in 1918 in Grand Rapids Michigan

both in and around this moody

Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy There is one tiny brownJust the sort of drawing that makes me love drawings so muchnot much fuss here, but such a perfectly true portrayal of symbiosis, with this duck or dove resting just perfectly in the cradle of the horses saddleand in return perhaps saving this horse from a heavier rider! To my eye, not one line more or less than there needs to be, just exactly right. C. 1880s; Ive found a birth record for Franklin David Rohr, to who it is attributed on the back of the