A charcoal and watercolor sketch on brown paper mounted on a white matte paper sealed in the front with a glass sheet and backed by a plastic sheet wrapped in plastic wrap. The scene is of a railhead dump at Menil-la-Tour. Approximately nine men wearing blue, possibly French, are seen in the sketch all over the picture. Seven men are working around a tall pile of baled hay seen in the center of the sketch. Another two men are working on the right side, dragging a sheet. Several tall covered piles are seen besides the hay pile. Two flat cars are seen on the rails. Trash is seen in on the right side behind a lone tree. Behind the trash is a building.
The sketch is mostly colored, but it is not entirely sketched. The sky is colored blue. The tree and the grass are painted green. Other colors include light blue, red, and brown/pink for the ground.
With 13 equal-size, round tapered teeth extending from a wide, rounded spine with raised edges and three voids, bordered by incuse dots, shaped like a pair of wings. Cast as a single piece with gate mark at top center of spine. No other marks.
Cylindrical shaft tapering to a sharp point at one end and having a slightly flattened, circular hanging loop at the other, to which is attached a circular jump ring. No marks. One of 6 skewers with holder, DL*388272A-G.
Baluster-shaped caster on a flared and cove-molded, circular pedestal base with high-domed, perforated cover having an acorn finial, pierced holes arranged into four diamonds, and molded rim. Plain body has molded band above projecting rounded shoulder with seam at center and square-bottomed lower half. No marks.
Andiron or firedog featuring a sphinx-like figure combining the head of a long-haired woman wearing a headband and collar necklace with a body composed of symmetrical opposing scrolls; prism for holding grate. Cast as a single piece. One of a pair, DL*388204A-B.
Fixed hand fan made of 17 turkey tail feathers connected by a wire pierced through their quills and wrapped or woven around with green ribbon. Green velvet and loose green ribbon around handle. No marks.
Three "ball-in-cage" design featuring a long, rectangular prism with three, equal-size, open-sided compartments or cages, each containing a loose ball; shperical knobs at ends. Whittled or carved from a single piece of wood. No marks.
This gusle was made by an unknown maker in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, probably 19th century. It has a table of hide (missing) stretched and fastened to the body with 19 pins (16 missing), body, neck and stylized horse with rider of one-piece hardwood, one hardwood tuning peg; instrument is not varnished.
This instrument has a spoon-shaped body with an elongated narrow neck terminating in a carving of a mounted horseman, with no further ornamentation. The horseman is possibly a stylized representation of Milos Obilic, a 14th-century Serbian folk-hero known for defending his country against the invading Turks.