The nutcracker is in good overall condition
but they are in overall very good condition
The stone is otherwise very smooth and feels great to hold
These really pop against the super bright white ground
(Orange bowl/base pictured in first photo not included
Hiram Campbell Merrill Drawing of Medieval Alms Box, Brittany, 1909 wooden animal sculpture The nutcracker is in goodA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing, while undated, I know was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And it is in fact two drawings, one glued to the corner of the other, comprising two views of an old alms box in