which I now find impossible not to hold in mind as I look at this one and which makes this landscape feel anything but naive
with a surface crack in the tusk on one side (magnified in photos) and lots of irregularity native to the tusk
With some notes on the interior back cover too and a few elsewhere
1911 and addressed (to a Mr
I believe this piece was intended as a perfume bottle but
Thomas Stokes Have Lett 10 Old Sheep and Five Lambs, Charming 1777 Handwritten Contract painted faces which I now find impossibleThis is one of very favorite finds of the week, and makes me very happy, including for being able to vividly imagine Thomas Stokes' ten old sheep and five lambs, appraised at the rate of 20 shillings "apease" which he "lett" in exchange for one pound of "wooll" for each one, each year, for two years. Dated May 26th, 1777, less than one year after America's Declaration of Independence, when colony issued pounds, shillings and pence were still in