Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian The handsomest young man there

The handsomest young man there

Wear to the bottom corners and a tiny tear along the right edge

with one small stain to the right corner of the upper left darn and one small stain to the top border

mostly filled front and back

purchased from a dealer at Brimfield who is a consistently good source of curious carved things--and because I love birds of every ilk

Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian The handsomest young man thereI'm a total sucker for school drawings like this pure joy, and I think pretty transcendent. These were done by a young John Mosher in 1939, in third grade, and feel to me as if channeling both Pennsylvania hex stars and Froebel kindergarten cut paper designs but rendered with the immediacy of hard pressed crayon! Quite nice in a grid I think so am offering as a set. Each was folded along one edge to make the paper square. Paper size (as folded) of