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

very nicely made and in good I think likely antique condition

but these old hand-drawn postcards have become my favorite thing of late

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

This is one of three 1970 marker drawings done by a child depicting specific athletes

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