Rare 1883 American News Co. How to Draw and Paint, with Wonderful Plates--and Interventions! retro I'm terrible with wood identification

I'm terrible with wood identification but think perhaps mahogany

My heart skipped a beat when I found this brush

with pretty minor scrapes and dings and paint loss

and especially the crooked mouth filled with a mix of gold and black teeth

three of the four are also stamped with a dg

Rare 1883 American News Co. How to Draw and Paint, with Wonderful Plates--and Interventions! retro I'm terrible with wood identification"How to Draw and Paint," published in 1883 by the American News Company, NY, seems a rare one to find; I've found just one copy out there, listed at about $200. This copy though is its own thing, with a Helen Henkel having put her own stamp on it through watercoloring a dozen or so of its many plates. (I especially like her making the sheep solid black.) The first half of the book (65 pages) is text (with the occasional diagram) walking the reader