Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball 16 1/2” x 13” x

16 1/2” x 13” x 9 3/4” t

7 7/8" x 6 1/2"

referring to a person enlisted to guard the front entrance to a barracks and handle administrative matters in a unit

these pretty little rounds of paper cut from early playing cards with wooden disks behind many of them

and is big enough to hold a fair stash of something precious

Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball 16 1/2” x 13” xFound on the southern coast of Maine, surely not far from where this large clam shell was painted, late 19th early 20th century. I might pass by a pansy painting on board, but give me some flowers painted on a shell, or a rock, or a conk, and I'll scoop it every time. The world is a canvas for the resourceful! And paintings on objects feel much more like momentos. 6" x 3 3 4" x 1" d. A little paint loss to the left pansy, as documented, and a few