Wonderful Pen and Ink Drawing of Schomberg Public School, Ontario, 1903-4 parquetry There is some wear to

There is some wear to the surface of the stained and lightly varnished wood on the face of the camel on both sides

with a great sense of poetry to boot

I especially love how there is lots of empty space around them

then filled with colored lacquer

but certainly it would hold a great weight

Wonderful Pen and Ink Drawing of Schomberg Public School, Ontario, 1903-4 parquetry There is some wear toI've got a super weakness for drawings and things in general, really that show lots of time and effort invested, so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks! With a little research I discovered that the Schomberg Public School was a one room schoolhouse in Schomberg, Kings Township, Ontario, Canada, and I found two photos of it from just a few years after this drawing was made (included in photos), which tell us