Wonderful (and Succinct) Old Carved Folk Art Boat Diorama for the vanity at its lowest point it

at its lowest point it measures 1 inch high

I especially love the hearts in the bottom corners and crowns just above them

A charmer of an old folk art limberjack or dancing doll

This is one of new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

including of other better shop students than I completing the knife boxes and tie racks and bird houses and foot stools represented in these plans

Wonderful (and Succinct) Old Carved Folk Art Boat Diorama for the vanity at its lowest point itOne sees old three dimensional carved ship "diorama" from time to time sometimes behind glass, sometimes not but this is the first I've seen done in such a succinct manner, with the ship carved in relief in an arched niche, and I think it's quite fabulous. It's a bit hard to tell but it seems it may have all be carved out of the one block of wood with the background painted behind the sails of the ship, which are three dimensional. I love the the feet