Very Excellent Naive Football Drawing #1 (Around the 30 Yard Line) dice shaker and I'd count it among

and I'd count it among may favorite matchstick creations

the dry surface is wonderfully warm with age

quite nice itself

There is a split in the wood at the hip of one leg

providing context for posterity--a 1907 copy ofthe Otago Witness

Very Excellent Naive Football Drawing #1 (Around the 30 Yard Line) dice shaker and I'd count it amongMy very very favorite sort of drawing, and thing: its maker clearly totally invested in the action unfolding, totally committed to capturing it, and also I think absolutely imaging themselves on the field as one or all of the players. Happily the kid (a boy of 10 or 12 I would guess) who drew this one made a good handful (three others listed today, and I've got a few more larger scale as well.) I really have no words for the pleasure drawings of this