Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest Most precarious is the clown

Most precarious is the clown topper--it is just a thin piece of wood (part of a toothpick I believe) that connects from a hole in his foot to a hole in the top of the wood dowel that elevates him

) and with (not quite) squares inside of squares as if an homage to Frank Stella too

It's the frowning crescent moon above and accompanying phrase

and making opening the mail feel a little more festive

Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries ("Suzani" comes from the Persian "Suzan"

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest Most precarious is the clownI love an old piece of stamp art, and how much better an elaborately decorated milk glass plate than a postcard, and even better such a pure piece of Americana as this! Quite a feat of labor and creativity just look at that marvelous flag, with all those tiny 1's and 2's making the pole and field of stars, and then this perimeter ring formed by carefully cut "United States" arches. With little heads of Washington and Lincoln and a few others I'm sure