Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame handmade mesh mask if just a bit long

if just a bit long on the arms

6 1/8" l (not including hooks at front and back) x 3 1/4" w x 3 5/8" t

This is a beautiful large painted/swabbed antique ash splint rectangular work basket

the color of the specimens is rich and each one beautiful

which I assume would have been sewn onto a cloth torso

Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame handmade mesh mask if just a bit longI love an old naive ship drawing or watercolor, and this I think is both a very charming and unusual example, with the ship circumscribed in a a circle, as if being viewed through a scope. (Of course this makes me imagine the person drawing it with pencil in one hand while holding a scope in the other, going back and forth working hard to capture all the details!) With an American flag waving proudly from the stern and sea below. There is pencil