Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold I find the hand-painted black

I find the hand-painted black against cream "Compositio" lettering on the front of this antique tin just about as good as it gets

I spotted this beauty from across the room and made a bee-line for her

which its mother indulges while also looking off into the distance

though I quite like the little bunny seeming to be looking in on a caged animal from the outside

which shows through a cutout in the top of the box

Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold I find the hand-painted blackThis drawing instruction book was published in 1889 in Lancaster, PA by Charles H. Frey, a Lancaster PA boot and shoe merchant, and includes instructions for a mail in drawing contest at back. I love old drawing instruction books which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here. Plus a sweet inscription from Elizabeth