Antique Folk Art Watercolor Drawing of Fancy Woman with Bustle Skirt chicago worlds fair there is a fair amount

there is a fair amount of staining to the two decks of questions (perhaps from spilled coffee or tea or cocktails) but the authors cards are in very good shape

and snatch them up whenever I do

The glass bottle and interior rim around are stained black from years of use

and porcupine quills popping out everywhere--at an antique shop in Newburyport

it is made mosaic-style of slag glass (sourced from KC’s Monarch Glass) pressed into concrete

Antique Folk Art Watercolor Drawing of Fancy Woman with Bustle Skirt chicago worlds fair there is a fair amountI purchased this and a second naive watercolor drawing of an Indian chief, surely by the same maker, from a seller in Pennsylvania, who found them tucked in the back of a late 19th century scrapbook. Their maker certainly had a way with color and wonderful details, in this case from her fabulous feathered hat to her little yellow parasol to those terrific blue boots! And then that little pencil drawn pocket and not one but two bows on her bustle