(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence humble carving with small brass nails for

with small brass nails for eyes

with veneer to the sides that looks to me like birds eye maple

making it the valentine of wall pockets

so there you go

which is tied together with gold thread

(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence humble carving with small brass nails forI know this ink drawing dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA who also drew the portrait of the Native American chief listed today. I love a painstakingly rendered portrait of an architectural structure in this manner, attention given to every beam and, best of all here, to each post of the picket fence to either side. Looking closely, none of the very straight looking