JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 iron finials 14 3/4" top to bottom

14 3/4" top to bottom

but there's also something just right about what's here

and embroidery

) What makes this especially nice is that someone--I'd guess a descendent--documented his Harvard-related accomplishments on reverse

with four chambers

JH Adaire, The Goose Parlor, Curious Ink and Crayon Drawing (with Birds & Flowers on Reverse), 1905 iron finials 14 3/4" top to bottomA few more today by a young J. H Adaire of Spring Grove, PA, dated 1905 I bought and sold a handful a month or two ago, then just went back to the seller to scoop up a handful more. Just my sort of naive and exuberant drawings and what a curious parlor here, lorded over by the goose, and with an especially excellent squirrel perched on fence that morphs into a small flagpole with oversized baseball floating over it. Odd and excellent. And then a swirl