Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian and stamped with a maker's

and stamped with a maker's mark

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The handsomest young man there

but I have to imagine the former informed the construction of later "crown of thorn" type frames and whimsies or garlands like this one

with one small stain to the right corner of the upper left darn and one small stain to the top border

Set of Four Exuberant Crayon Drawn Mandalas by John Mosher, Grade 3, 1939 catalonian and stamped with a maker'sI'm a total sucker for school drawings like this pure joy, and I think pretty transcendent. These were done by a young John Mosher in 1939, in third grade, and feel to me as if channeling both Pennsylvania hex stars and Froebel kindergarten cut paper designs but rendered with the immediacy of hard pressed crayon! Quite nice in a grid I think so am offering as a set. Each was folded along one edge to make the paper square. Paper size (as folded) of