Dana Purinton's Top Speed Boston Terrier, with Strutting Dachshund on Reverse, Graphite Drawing earthenware vase I mostly pass these sorts

I mostly pass these sorts of boxes as they can feel sort of one note

and can never get enough--and what a gorgeous field of black crosses against white here

I purchased these at Brimfield from a dealer with whom I talked about old blocks for a good 20 minutes--he

Old creases and bottom corner loss

) Their bodies are sewn of silk

Dana Purinton's Top Speed Boston Terrier, with Strutting Dachshund on Reverse, Graphite Drawing earthenware vase I mostly pass these sortsI haven't found any record of a prize terrier bred by a Dana Purinton, but this guy sure looks like a champion to me as does the strutting dachshund drawn on reverse! The graphite drawings look to have been the work of a Mrs. W. E. Schmidt, who signed the bottom left corner of the dachshund drawing. C. 1930s 40s I would guess, quite charming! 12" x 9". Folded into quarters as evident, but lies flat now, with light scattered graphite smudges, erasures,