JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 folk art carvingh with the (albeit a bit

with the (albeit a bit tattered) instruction booklet

I really really love his large red heart with arrow through it

and it seems piercing its back with a few sharp wire teeth in the process

looking very shy

Lena spends lots of time pondering the nature of love

JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 folk art carvingh with the (albeit a bitA 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 what a curious parlor here, lorded over by the goose, and with an especially excellent squirrel perched on fence that morphs into a small flagpole with oversized baseball floating over it. Odd and excellent. And then a swirl