Mickey Doyle's How to Dress and Cut Deer, Ink Drawing Stapled to Hardboard casting but they are pretty subtle

but they are pretty subtle

I believe the big bows and sailor's collar worn by some of the girls likely dates this to the 1920s or so

Really lovely things

] desk and looked them over when resting and enjoying her garden

from the wonderfully messy whiskers to blood red tongue hanging out between painted teeth

Mickey Doyle's How to Dress and Cut Deer, Ink Drawing Stapled to Hardboard casting but they are pretty subtleAnother Brimfield favorite which the person who sold it to me had to take a picture of before parting with, not so much to remember the drawing as to remember how to properly dress a deer! Clearly the Mickey Doyle who drew it was quite proud of it, and I think must have referred to it often, as he stapled it to a piece of hardboard (and it was wrapped in plastic, too, I think perhaps to protect it from process oriented staining!) I'm always looking