Blue Bird! Charming 19th Century Cutout Ink Drawing in Terrific Primitive Period Frame pastry wheel but I find this battered

but I find this battered vintage X-ACTO knife box

with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one

and the overall wear to the wood suggests it served him long and well

" Amid recipes for salves and remedies of many sorts (rot in sheep's foot

The effect is so visceral--you can see exactly how the flame travelled in real time

Blue Bird! Charming 19th Century Cutout Ink Drawing in Terrific Primitive Period Frame pastry wheel but I find this batteredPure joy. The marvelous, densely pen and blue ink decorated bird here is a cutout drawing, mid 19th c. I believe, purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer, and the wonderful c. mid 19th century black stained painted primitive frame with hand cut glass is one I found in New Hampshire and had waiting for the perfect thing, which I think the bird is! I mounted the cutout drawing to a piece of cream colored archival mat via one piece of