Beautiful Small Two Piece Carved Black Duck glass panel but both drawing and frame

but both drawing and frame appear in very good condition

very readable (though writing is sometimes pretty small

which were sold together in one box--are among the rarer among them

with very minor staining

painted and carved during and just after the Civil War

Beautiful Small Two Piece Carved Black Duck glass panel but both drawing and frameThis lovely old carved wooden duck is small a bit shy of 5 inches long but has quite a wonderful presence and sense of specialness about it, in significant part I think due to the head having been carved from a separate piece of wood than the body, which, together with the sensitive carving of the form, makes me think perhaps caved by a practiced decoy maker. Primitive, elegant, distinctive, and to my eye quite a perfect thing. 4 7 8 l x 2 t x 1 7 8 w