Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) wooden canister Toning and staining to the

Toning and staining to the front cover and some staining to first inside page

There are a couple of stains on the drawing

The seller I purchased this from speculated this house collapse might be product of an earthquake

I found another of these 19th c Sunderland lustreware/ transferware plaques not long ago (that one reading Thou God Seest Me) and went back to my source this week to scoop up one more

with big black painted pupils

Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) wooden canister Toning and staining to theI actually picked this one out of a pile looking at it upside down, thinking it looked like a smiling ghost (or snow woman) see second photo. Then I turned it the right way up to find this very sober looking, somewhat Frankenstein ian face! Both ways pretty terrific I think, and I like this idea of the drawing holding two aspects at once. Plus what a brilliant thing crayon resist drawing paintings are, with the scraped away black tempera paint lending