Antique Folk Art Watercolor Bookplate in Hand-Carved Period Frame box scouts collectible This is an early set

This is an early set

with carved notch at the end that also looks a bit like an old key

and with a bit off a bow to the platform

"Dear Gert

and great red yarn nose and mouth

Antique Folk Art Watercolor Bookplate in Hand-Carved Period Frame box scouts collectible This is an early setThis antique watercolor with hex type star at center, done on what looks like the inside of a book's back cover, is just the sort of thing I am forever opening antique books in hopes of finding but never do! It looks to me this one was deemed special enough to frame long ago, and may have lived in this lovely hand carved framed since the beginning; perhaps the frame was made just for it, as it fits it exactly. I love the saturated colors and how