Rainbow Colored Arrows Everywhere: Strange, Intense, Ledger-Esque Vintage Child's Crayon Drawing train set kit I really love the crude

I really love the crude immediacy of this graphite drawn cross against the brown linen of the cover

Really fun to find these

This is an early set

maybe 3rd rather than 4th quarter 19th c

The silk piecework covering the face of this antique stool is much worn

Rainbow Colored Arrows Everywhere: Strange, Intense, Ledger-Esque Vintage Child's Crayon Drawing train set kit I really love the crudeThis is one of several drawings by the same maker I'm listing today which I must say made my heart beat faster when I found them. I believe done by a child and I have to think an adolescent boy but to my eye these have the clarity and intensity of Native American ledger drawings, which might be my favorite things in the world. These are dark for sure, portraying battle scenes and torturous scenarios and then in one of them there is a giant yellow duck