Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry I recently purchased a bundle

I recently purchased a bundle of antique school notebooks from a bookseller in England

This one--oil on unstretched canvas

Marked Thos Godwin Burslem Stone China on the underside

and his profile is pretty terrific too

with no notable stains and no mildewing)

Super Sweet Set of Handmade Wooden Houses c. 1940s enamel jewelry I recently purchased a bundlePure joy. I'm forever looking for little painted wooden houses like these (like next generation American folk art versions of early German Erzgebirge villages) but pretty much never find them, and what could be better than the color combinations here? With carefully cutout wooden doors nailed to their fronts, and hand painted paned windows on each and every one too. Satisfying like a great set of old homemade painted building blocks, but even better,