Life on Fieldfair Farm, Antique Pencil Drawing on Board staffordshire and with the closed loop

and with the closed loop at top it would indeed be easy to wear

I found her at the estate sale of an architect in Amesbury

that I'm listing them all together (and at a bargain price

I've had a few different mid-century Lapid Israel vases and really loved each of them---reminscent of Scandinavian and West German modernist ceramics

seems to date her to right around 1900 and to Hartford County

Life on Fieldfair Farm, Antique Pencil Drawing on Board staffordshire and with the closed loopEverything but the kitchen sink packed into this old pencil drawing of a very busy couple on their farm, surrounded by dog and cat and chickens and little chicks. From the fish shaped weathervane on the barn to the shutter hanging open to the bucket on the fence to the pair of horseshoes at lower right next to the artist's initials, it really feels rather like one of those puzzle drawings where you are supposed to locate all sorts hidden images!