Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes cloth arms I believe this pencil and

I believe this pencil and watercolor drawing was done in the late 1860s

with face in profile

guides to the heavens (complete with hilarious star maps) and faux-astrological advisements for each month of the year (i

and the way she lifts and cradles her child

or perhaps a skip

Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes cloth arms I believe this pencil andA number of boxes this week that won my heart in one way or another, this very much one of them. Super patina, nice long size and shape, white cloth label turning one corner telling us it once held large and medium wood drills, small files and screw drivers. And then small holes drilled into the top and sides in a semi regular pattern putting the drills to trial, I presume, while also evoking a sense that this could also have been put to use as a bait