SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays handmade wooden lion and under her simple cotton

and under her simple cotton dress a smartly wrapped undergarment fastened with a safety pin

I believe it dates to the 1960s or 70s

Plus Harry's very serious portrait at the center of each

) The underside of the lid on this one is stamped "Lincoln Institute for Psychology

or just added to a stack

SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays handmade wooden lion and under her simple cottonSo fun, and clearly so much love invested in these. And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia I'd say good fodder for a short story. The full scale and general nature of them makes me imagine that they were not made by a father for his children, say, but rather perhaps for a group of three siblings still living together in their old age who knows?! How wonderfully crafted they were in any event, late 19th