Charming Antique Folk Art Watercolor of Bird on Branch Signed Esa, Framed Tales from the Igloo brass wire beautifully wraps both

brass wire beautifully wraps both the horizontally running bristles that form the handle and attached bunches of bristles that hang down perpendicularly

I just double checked and it was in 1910 that engineer Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first pair of audio headphones resembling modern day pairs (at his kitchen table)

it was made by Arthur Armour (1908-1998)

where he had just that day been put on display

Charming Antique Folk Art Watercolor of Bird on Branch Signed Esa, Framed Tales from the Igloo brass wire beautifully wraps bothI'm always on the lookout for 19th century Fraktur style folk art watercolors exactly like this one, which I am assuming was done by a young girl named Esa, though there are also the initials HL in pencil at lower left. The bird, flowers and branch were outlined in pencil, then painted in soft blue, green, ochre and pink. Serene but very cheerful and just lovely. Done on lined paper, with an embossed mark at lower right. It appears to be fairly newly