Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) topsy turvy doll some foil loss

some foil loss

everything around him

It measures 2 1/4" across at lip and 1 3/4" across at base

I also think it is a fairly old one

and she's arched like the figurehead of a ship

Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) topsy turvy doll some foil lossLove at first sight for me with this tree and a perfect marriage of watercolor and frame plus provenance pinned to the back of it in the form of notes written on a Prudential envelope postmarked in 1971. The tree pictured is described on that envelope as "Charter Oak, Boston, MA" and the watercolor as having belonged to Almon Babcock of Ravenna, Ohio "who had one of the first taverns here in early 1800s Supposed to have been made by one of his