Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) pastel drawing of lion walls perhaps painted a deep

walls perhaps painted a deep burgundy and hung with dozens of antique dog portraits in gilded frames

which differ radically from newer examples

but it is not falling off on its own

much alligatored in places and with very mellowed gold paint around the edges of the top and on the carved bits running vertical to the mirror

The watercolor is by Gloria Fletcher (1929-2016)

Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) pastel drawing of lion walls perhaps painted a deepNear impossible to photograph well, but I love this thing a glass ink bottle, its surface crudely etched (scratched into) by a young Newell Robbins. His name appears in large letters on both sides, followed on one side with "ones the this bottle" underneath translation: "owns" this bottle, I believe. The other side reads "born October 12" with a bit more following that appears to have been deliberately scratched out. I filled it with water to make it