Fooling, c. 1930s Child's Watercolor Drawing animal shaped I found these this past

I found these this past summer at a flea market close to me and just pulled them out again--and was struck anew by their loveliness

which I'd have to think was immersed in the sea for some time such that these barnacles would grow all over it

What a lovely thing to put on the table and pleasure to use

shoe company of Holyoke

I have not taken it out of the period lemon gold frame it is housed in

Fooling, c. 1930s Child's Watercolor Drawing animal shaped I found these this pastThis is one of a few watercolor drawings I held onto from a larger batch I found a year or so ago, so that I could live with it for a while. (Mounted on archival mat and placed in a simple contemporary frame in the interim.) For a while it seemed to me all of them were done by the same person, but now I think perhaps done by different students in the same class, who were given the same format and the same (wonderfully unusual) watercolor palette to