Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) pastel drawing of lion done as early school exercises

done as early school exercises as means of teaching color and composition (as well as manual dexterity

Photos do no justice to this one

much alligatored in places and with very mellowed gold paint around the edges of the top and on the carved bits running vertical to the mirror

and it doesn't seem like the wheels were ever fully round

Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) pastel drawing of lion done as early school exercisesNear impossible to photograph well, but I love this thing a glass ink bottle, its surface crudely etched (scratched into) by a young Newell Robbins. His name appears in large letters on both sides, followed on one side with "ones the this bottle" underneath translation: "owns" this bottle, I believe. The other side reads "born October 12" with a bit more following that appears to have been deliberately scratched out. I filled it with water to make it