Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 McCoy The silver toned metal cap

The silver toned metal cap screws on tightly--perfect for tucking in a pocket or a bag for tippling anywhere

and while at first I thought the central component of a weathervane

padlock is a pretty rare one

3 1/8" t x 2 1/4" d

with irregularities native to form and glaze

Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 McCoy The silver toned metal capThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a