Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy I just love this pair

I just love this pair of birds gracefully perched on a  branch

There is one tiny brown spot on the paper near the body of the mouse and a visible "frame" on the paper where it lightened with age except where it was previously covered by a mat around the edges

both in and around this moody

I have found mention of a Morning Star Stove Manufacturing Company established in 1918 in Grand Rapids Michigan

is signed in the bottom left corner

Naive 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Horse and Bird Symbiosis sewing caddy I just love this pairJust the sort of drawing that makes me love drawings so muchnot much fuss here, but such a perfectly true portrayal of symbiosis, with this duck or dove resting just perfectly in the cradle of the horses saddleand in return perhaps saving this horse from a heavier rider! To my eye, not one line more or less than there needs to be, just exactly right. C. 1880s; Ive found a birth record for Franklin David Rohr, to who it is attributed on the back of the