Good Book, Good Book, Very Sweet Antique Graphite Endpaper Drawing silver vessel and I'll never say no

and I'll never say no to a sweet little carved clothes pin man

and wear to the lower right corner

which just feels all of a piece with it

with a truly fantastic patina to the dry pine

but which I thought would make a perfect pencil box

Good Book, Good Book, Very Sweet Antique Graphite Endpaper Drawing silver vessel and I'll never say noGood book, good book. I'm completely smitten with this one, which I take as a self portrait of a thoughtful reader done many many years ago. Not sure what "good book" it was pulled from, but clearly was done on an end page removed at some point could well be the good book being referenced was The Bible, but she looks more like a reader of novels or poetry to me! Marvelous face, wonderful hair, and I just love the polka dots under her armpits! 5 7 8" x