Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Nick Steagner's Tender 1900 Notebook/Sketchpad, Wayne County, PA cast bronze object with knotted fringe on either

with knotted fringe on either end

I would be inclined to display them just as I've shot them

What I especially like about this one is the little pocket/recess for a thimble at the the center

The drawing is signed (on the shoulder of the figure) W

Box 2 3/8" x 1 5/8" x 1/2"

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Nick Steagner's Tender 1900 Notebook/Sketchpad, Wayne County, PA cast bronze object with knotted fringe on eitherThis little notebook reveals itself as a very very tender one, quietly telling a story of a young man's artistic aspirations and what one presumes was his first trip from farm in Pennsylvania to New York City. I purchased it from a Pennsylvania based dealer who had several other sketchbooks by the same Nice Steagner (this one dated 1900) those others filled with drawing after drawing of cows, more cows, and more cows, occasionally horse or sheep, too.