Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 wooden pins I believe this basket is

I believe this basket is the work of Flo Shay

I feel like there is a whole thesis embedded in this

I also love how the bank of trees at center left is perfectly offset by the bridge just to its right

with a bit of crazing to the pink glaze of the dog on one of the boxes

horizontal pencil lines connecting the eyeballs

Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 wooden pins I believe this basket isIt would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawingsdated 1876if it were buried in a stack, but happily the person I bought it from found it, as it is really marvelous! There are a total of 11 drawings, each cleverly titled and each featuring a very singular character or characters, from two big bellied suited fellows on the first page (cover is missing) punningly titled (I believe) close corporations to a pair of fabulous articulated wooden