Old Oil on Cardboard Painting of Single Funnel Steam Ship art nouveau calendar This old box would feel

This old box would feel right at home in a library or study filled with old books

The guiding handle which runs down the middle of his body

this handblown glass flask likely once had a leather or perhaps wicker cover over its top half

and were found in a Marshall Fields cardboard jewelry box

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Old Oil on Cardboard Painting of Single Funnel Steam Ship art nouveau calendar This old box would feelI don't know a lot about boats, but I have developed quite a fondness for old paintings of them, and I really love the warmth and folkiness of this one. The single funnel steam ship itself fairly closely resembles the CSS Acadia, built in England during the first decade of the 20th century, and used to survey Canada's northern waters. I am not sure this boat is that, but do think it is likely earlyish 20th century British, and believe the blue flag