Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing painted wooden chest of drawers with 1868 and 1871 patent

with 1868 and 1871 patent dates

Hawthorne Mass

And then also just the evocativeness of the word "gilt

The production of these "trinket" baskets became a cottage industry in the 1860s and reached its height in the 1930s

Yours truly

Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing painted wooden chest of drawers with 1868 and 1871 patentA couple of more wonderfully colorful naive antique drawings today, including this one, that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings salvaged from the notebook indicate that it was quite a masterpiece! Happily we have a few, and they fill me at