Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene whisk brush and I love the back

and I love the back as much as the front

stands study on its own

" I believe they date from the mid-20th Century

with finial that looks like it could also be used as a hammer

Certainly this could be used as a needle/pin keep now

Booths, Balloons, Baby Carriages, Puppet Show, Marvelous Naive Watercolor of Busy Scene whisk brush and I love the backPresumably done by a child long ago, I find this watercolor really marvelous, and quite sophisticated feeling, too. I take the scene as an open air market or fair, with all the figures moving along the center aisle drawn in profile, almost all facing in one direction, while all the figures hosting booths (none looking super happy about it) are drawn facing front as if just hoping some of these walkers will stop to visit them, but feeling pretty lonely