Woman in Yellow Hat with Amazing Lips and Tiny Flower, Antique Graphite and Crayon Drawing antique sea moss Solid and stable and holding

Solid and stable and holding together just fine though I might retire it from demanding step stool use

I have not attempted to scrub or bleach these away

I believe it is an old saddle maker’s vise —it would have been attached to a bench with a lever below

this would be easy to pop in a small frame to hand

which adds I think to a sense of specialness and makes it feel much wilder and more like a shore bird

Woman in Yellow Hat with Amazing Lips and Tiny Flower, Antique Graphite and Crayon Drawing antique sea moss Solid and stable and holdingA few more today by the same person who drew the woman with raised hand in garden (framed) listed last week along with another sold I love these so much, each quite singular but showing their maker's sustained commitment to drawing lovely ladies in with distinctive features, sculptural hair, and tiny hands! And this young woman is completely after my own heart!!! What a face, a bit awkward and wonderfully open and earnest looking, with those lips just