Excellent Double-sided Kid's Drawing #2 (Parachute) boxing gloves Another antique British shoe shaped

Another antique British shoe shaped snuff box with brass nail decoration

"Clark was a teacher including at the National Arts Club* from 1943

who might be contemplating the meaning of life

3 1/8" in diameter and 3/4" deep

showing some wear where the links overlap

Excellent Double-sided Kid's Drawing #2 (Parachute) boxing gloves Another antique British shoe shapedI have a very deep and special love for the drawings of boys of about 7 or 8, and specifically action scenes playing out directly on the page just about as direct a line into the imagination as exists, completely visceral and immediate. In a way I can't fully articulate, there feels something powerfully true and tender about the convergence of naivete and brutality in drawings like this and one can feel the catharsis of pent up energy and aggression