Barbara Lewis's Very Sweet Sewing Sampler Booklet antique Christmas village and a lagged lower left

and a lagged lower left corner (not a loss)--all of which in the case of this sort of drawing I think just make it better

Everything is covered with a layer of varnish or shellac

which add up to the most perfectly imperfect surface decoration

despite the loss of his feet

Stable--paint is not chipping off unless one is actively trying

Barbara Lewis's Very Sweet Sewing Sampler Booklet antique Christmas village and a lagged lower leftHow to resist this sweet thing? Done by a Barbara Lewis 1930s or so I would guess, probably for a home economics sort of class, if features 18 pages of simple sewing exercises and fabric samples, from cross stitches to four squares, seersucker to chinz. The clips are easily removed should one wish to take it apart (which I did for the ease of documenting) and also easy to to reassemble. 9 1 16 x 6 1 4. All in very good, bright and clean condition and