Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball From curls to cuffs to

From curls to cuffs to silhouettes

rather a copy of that print must have been laid facing it

referring to a person enlisted to guard the front entrance to a barracks and handle administrative matters in a unit

with drawstring for closing it tight

it seems quite an apt companion to the Marie Antoinette watercolor I'm listing next

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball From curls to cuffs toFound on the southern coast of Maine, surely not far from where this large clam shell was painted, late 19th early 20th century. I might pass by a pansy painting on board, but give me some flowers painted on a shell, or a rock, or a conk, and I'll scoop it every time. The world is a canvas for the resourceful! And paintings on objects feel much more like momentos. 6" x 3 3 4" x 1" d. A little paint loss to the left pansy, as documented, and a few