Naive 19th C Pennsylvania Watercolor Drawing of Boy with Sickle and Birds antique piecework (The partially stained one also

(The partially stained one also has a stretch of a pale green rubber coated wire on top of the rainbow one)

and a 3/8" tight tear at the bottom center

Such a wonderful little curiosity

19th century

In this one the task is to get a silver ball onto the plate of each of these characters--and hurry

Naive 19th C Pennsylvania Watercolor Drawing of Boy with Sickle and Birds antique piecework (The partially stained one alsoI never hesitate when I find 19th c watercolor drawings like this, likely done by a school child the combination of grace and awkwardness and immediacy, together with the use of color, just makes my heart ache. I found this, and another I am listing by the same person I believe, in Lancaster County, PA, and am pretty certain that is around where they originated. Most typically one finds these cut into smaller bits; rarer to find the complete original