Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA wooden bird in cage and by pulling up on

and by pulling up on his neck then pushing it back down emits a high pitched chirp

This gives me total joy

and a perfect form

and I think quite a work of art

and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself--that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook/sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition)

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA wooden bird in cage and by pulling up onOne of a couple more today by a young J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, c. 1905, which I purchased together; just my sort of drawings. I found a number of Neiswangers in Lancaster Country, PA , including two Henrys, one born in 1796 and one in 1857, both of whom ultimately wound up in Ohio. I'm a sucker for a Pennsylvania folk art drawing of a barn, but it's the specific of this one I really love, with the majority of attention paid to detailing the