Wonderful Antique Graphite Portrait of Man with Blue Eyes and Beard, Fenced Above Elbows! fuctional This set of handmade dominoes

This set of handmade dominoes feels very much aligned in spirit with the perpetual calendar I just listed--full of the presence of the Charles Farr who carved them "from the shin bone of an ox

Striker worn very smooth

with just some loss of blue fabric backing around the squirrels and berries at the top

serving as a sort of winder

a handful with real laces--and several of the original boxes they came in

Wonderful Antique Graphite Portrait of Man with Blue Eyes and Beard, Fenced Above Elbows! fuctional This set of handmade dominoesThe more time I spend with this folk portrait, American c. 1880s I believe, the more I love it. Looking closely, it appears that there is just a very subtle bit of pale blue used for the irises of his eyes. And this wonderful care given to the brushy hairs of his beard. And this very sweet little bowtie. But what really makes if for me are the curlicue lines encircling his arms and demarcating the bottom edge of the drawing evincing a barbed wire