19th C. Naive Double-Sided Graphite Drawing: Pigs and Birds desk accessory It is of the scale

It is of the scale and substance that it would work well both indoors and out

which is minor and took me a long time to notice

Both are the size of actual fruit

The key still works to open and close it easily

Likely these were done as mourning braids

19th C. Naive Double-Sided Graphite Drawing: Pigs and Birds desk accessory It is of the scaleThis is among of a number of drawings I have listed am listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, 1870s or so I believe, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I really love the mother pig with bunch of piglets running around on this, with some darks stains at right that feel quite appropriately like mud! Nicely drawn barn in the background too, and then a couple of exotic birds in