Merchants Exchange Memorandum: 1865 Ink Sketches by Edwin Clark black folk art super sturdy and good looking

super sturdy and good looking

but the ribbon is so old and brittle I am afraid to try it

which I believe was at the very beginning of the 20th c

which make them extra nice--you can amuse yourself by setting them spinning while waiting on others to take their turns

which about midway between Albany and Hudson

Merchants Exchange Memorandum: 1865 Ink Sketches by Edwin Clark black folk art super sturdy and good lookingI purchased this and a second just listed together, the other with a handwritten note on it that applies to this one too: "Edwin Clark drew these to amuse Ella when a little girl and she finds them when she is 64 years old where she has carefully preserved them in hers and Sophy's [?] desk and looked them over when resting and enjoying her garden. July 20, 1918, 8: 30 pm." I don't imagine the sketches on this page have any relationship to the