Dana Purinton's Top Speed Boston Terrier, with Strutting Dachshund on Reverse, Graphite Drawing concrete bookends ” And so one imagines

”  And so one imagines a gift from a wife to her spouse long ago--I might imagine

I have not touched the lacquer on this but think it could be cleaned a bit

which has chipped some

but it is the abstractness and ambiguity that make it interesting to me

though mostly with the help of turning the handle

Dana Purinton's Top Speed Boston Terrier, with Strutting Dachshund on Reverse, Graphite Drawing concrete bookends ” And so one imaginesI haven't found any record of a prize terrier bred by a Dana Purinton, but this guy sure looks like a champion to me as does the strutting dachshund drawn on reverse! The graphite drawings look to have been the work of a Mrs. W. E. Schmidt, who signed the bottom left corner of the dachshund drawing. C. 1930s 40s I would guess, quite charming! 12" x 9". Folded into quarters as evident, but lies flat now, with light scattered graphite smudges, erasures,