For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box antique watercolor of ducks with blue spots on the

with blue spots on the wings and for tail feathers

so was happy to find a few more this past weekend--I think they're just gorgeous

dates to the second half of the 19th century and I believe is most likely British

touching her belly rather than covering her breasts

I've become quite a fan of late 19th century punch paper embroideries

For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box antique watercolor of ducks with blue spots on theFound in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved