Wonderful Antique Graphite Portrait of Man with Blue Eyes and Beard, Fenced Above Elbows! fuctional a handful with real laces--and

a handful with real laces--and several of the original boxes they came in

A number of drawings included

This set of handmade dominoes feels very much aligned in spirit with the perpetual calendar I just listed--full of the presence of the Charles Farr who carved them "from the shin bone of an ox

or just as lovely sculptural things

serving as a sort of winder

Wonderful Antique Graphite Portrait of Man with Blue Eyes and Beard, Fenced Above Elbows! fuctional a handful with real laces--andThe more time I spend with this folk portrait, American c. 1880s I believe, the more I love it. Looking closely, it appears that there is just a very subtle bit of pale blue used for the irises of his eyes. And this wonderful care given to the brushy hairs of his beard. And this very sweet little bowtie. But what really makes if for me are the curlicue lines encircling his arms and demarcating the bottom edge of the drawing evincing a barbed wire