Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 wooden pins horizontal pencil lines connecting the

horizontal pencil lines connecting the eyeballs

taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach

) They may not be very old

with a bit of crazing to the pink glaze of the dog on one of the boxes

more beauty

Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 wooden pins horizontal pencil lines connecting theIt would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawingsdated 1876if it were buried in a stack, but happily the person I bought it from found it, as it is really marvelous! There are a total of 11 drawings, each cleverly titled and each featuring a very singular character or characters, from two big bellied suited fellows on the first page (cover is missing) punningly titled (I believe) close corporations to a pair of fabulous articulated wooden