Merchants Exchange Memorandum: 1865 Ink Sketches by Edwin Clark man with umbrella This small but stunning antique

This small but stunning antique ginger jar

and with this perfect posture one might think he's about to win a medal

a narrow plank rested across the bottom sides could easily be added to make a slightly elevated platform to set things on

though perhaps it is a little too refined

It is easy to believe that people used to put these out for guests to see if they'd try to bite into them

Merchants Exchange Memorandum: 1865 Ink Sketches by Edwin Clark man with umbrella This small but stunning antiqueI purchased this and a second just listed together, the other with a handwritten note on it that applies to this one too: "Edwin Clark drew these to amuse Ella when a little girl and she finds them when she is 64 years old where she has carefully preserved them in hers and Sophy's [?] desk and looked them over when resting and enjoying her garden. July 20, 1918, 8: 30 pm." I don't imagine the sketches on this page have any relationship to the