Girls with Dolls and Kitten / Flowers and Rope, Antique Double-sided Watercolor Drawing victorian egg with check which range in date from

which range in date from 1910 to 1938

Toward the end the year of its making (I assume) is revealed in two drawings—one of an Abe Lincoln-looking character in tailcoat marking the 1876 centennial as “Stride of Liberty”

The mold side is still entirely filled with some sort of composite material

with holes running all the way through and actually rotating

Girls with Dolls and Kitten / Flowers and Rope, Antique Double-sided Watercolor Drawing victorian egg with check which range in date fromThis is one of several watercolor drawings which I find completely marvelous and clearly product of a most lively and inventive mind and hand, and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings