Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball From curls to cuffs to

From curls to cuffs to silhouettes

7 7/8" x 6 1/2"

with hand-cut glass windows

this past week I went back to the same dealer who had put out a few more and I snapped them right up

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Painted Pansies on a Clam Shell, Antique Coastal New England Folk Art Momento antique baseball From curls to cuffs toFound 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