Abraham Schultz 1858 Fraktur Drawing of Birds, Fish, Squirrel toy rubber truck handle is 8 1/4" long

handle is 8 1/4" long

This little carved bone egg

Average size is about 1/2" in diameter

vulnerable

This is one of three small watercolors I purchased together

Abraham Schultz 1858 Fraktur Drawing of Birds, Fish, Squirrel toy rubber truck handle is 8 1/4" longTo my eye, this is about as good as it gets, perhaps the tail of that blue squirrel most of all! and a perfect example of why fraktur style ink and watercolors are such cherished and collected things. On the reverse it is signed by a David Schultz in blue ink and dated 1860 (along with numbers running 1 9 first forwards then backwards) suggesting perhaps that its maker was in fact David and perhaps that it was made to mark the birth or life of