Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women blue eyed boy *Knife sharpener box he is

*Knife sharpener box he is standing on sold separately

called Yosegi in Japan

held in place by clusters of fat nails

but a hook could be attached on one side to hang him on the wall

” a the hugely popular Civil War magazine published in Philadelphia

Antique Folk Art Pencil Sketches of Two Women blue eyed boy *Knife sharpener box he isI purchased these and several other pencil drawings by the same unknown artist from a dealer in Maine, who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings. Their maker certainly had a way with faces, and with conveying character through specific details, and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter, with the elder home in her nightgown as the younger heads out to