JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 folk art carvingh with the (albeit a bit

with the (albeit a bit tattered) instruction booklet

I really really love his large red heart with arrow through it

It was done by an Isabella Caroline Thompson

looking very shy

and it seems piercing its back with a few sharp wire teeth in the process

JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 folk art carvingh with the (albeit a bitA few more today by a young J. H Adaire of Spring Grove, PA, dated 1905 I bought and sold a handful a month or two ago, then just went back to the seller to scoop up a handful more. Just my sort of naive and exuberant drawings and what a curious parlor here, lorded over by the goose, and with an especially excellent squirrel perched on fence that morphs into a small flagpole with oversized baseball floating over it. Odd and excellent. And then a swirl