SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror one glued to the corner

one glued to the corner of the other

The drawing over collage was laid down on white paper

but the other a pipe cleaner attached to a real little animal claw

I did learn that the use of train whistles seems to have originated in England in 1832

SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror one glued to the cornerI really love how Vernon E. Leighton stitched two ruled pages together in order to fully capture all of Uncle Sam's new buildings in Bangor Maine, which he did quite wonderfully I think, with careful attention to all the windows and doors, down to the the tassels and loops hanging from the shades in the bay windows of the house. A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer, with works including "A Soldier's Dream," published