Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box 8 1/2" l x 5

8 1/2" l x 5 1/2" t x 1/2" thick

A very elegant piece that would hold its own amid any collection of beautiful boxes

it features a carved wooden handle

This is a circa 1896 copy of “Barnes's Elementary Geography” featuring

and the others of which are attached to the wrists

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box 8 1/2" l x 5This drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls