Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings night scene Or to hang from a

Or to hang from a hook by the front door

with a framed cross carved into both faces of it to define it as a bible

1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana McKinney (1909-2008) I have in the shop--and they are both truly luminous

the metal shows some age as one would want it to

I've since done just a tiny bit of touch up with a black Sharpie--not to repair real damage

Walter Easton's Most Wonderful Mid 19th Century Handmade Booklet of Naive Graphite and Watercolor Drawings night scene Or to hang from aSome things call to me and then some things get my heart racing fast and this is very much one of the latter. Pure and total joy. These sorts of things are getting harder and harder to find, and more and more precious when they surface and no wonder! C. 1850, purchased from a dealer in Vermont, with six watercolored drawings in it, each captioned in that very best sort of all caps child's lettering, the child in this case a young Walter Easton, who