Delicately Rendered 1880s Pennsylvania Folk Ink and Watercolor Ledger Drawing of Native American Chief (Copy) watercolor drawing So many great variations on

So many great variations on the classic rainbow colored stacking toy

with offices in Cleveland and a plant at Bay Bridge near Sandusky

and then each page devoted to two letters (with the exception of U and V sharing a half)

Wear/fraying to the green fabric (I do believe silk) on the underside and a couple of very small losses to the felt around the perimeter

the period when perforated paper was just becoming popular

Delicately Rendered 1880s Pennsylvania Folk Ink and Watercolor Ledger Drawing of Native American Chief (Copy) watercolor drawing So many great variations onThis is my favorite drawing I've had in some time, just the sort I go to Pennsylvania (and everywhere else) hoping to find. I know that it dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, MA. (Makes me think a bit of the drawings of Wayne Blouch, which I presented in an online viewing room in collaboration with Ricco Maresca a few years ago) Such a wonderful grace and delicacy to the ink