Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft Structurally sturdy and sound with

Structurally sturdy and sound with no splits or other issues and just wonderful

This one appears to have been painted as a present

I think all to the good

I'm never quire sure with a carved boot of this near full sized scale whether it was a folk creation or a cobbler's display piece

one-of-a-kind box and board with great character and  many years of play left in it

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft Structurally sturdy and sound withOne of a couple more today by a young J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, c. 1905, which I purchased together; just my sort of drawings. I found a number of Neiswangers in Lancaster Country, PA , including two Henrys, one born in 1796 and one in 1857, both of whom ultimately wound up in Ohio. I'm a sucker for a Pennsylvania folk art drawing of a barn, but it's the specific of this one I really love, with the majority of attention paid to detailing the