JH Adaire, Ink and Crayon Rooster and Grouse (?) Drawing, 1905, Spring Grove PA soup bowls ) These I purchased from

) These I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts

though--or a hand grenade

relating parquetry to the Chinese tangram puzzle

These Keisuke Serizawa fans have become fairly rare to find and are quite distinctive

because I just can't resist the look of all those gracefully tapered bright white sticks standing on end in the box

JH Adaire, Ink and Crayon Rooster and Grouse (?) Drawing, 1905, Spring Grove PA soup bowls ) These I purchased fromA 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 I really really love the postures and the colors and patterning on these two, which I take for a rooster and a grouse though perhaps the latter is a partridge, or? Whatever the case, I can very much imagine the one