Wonderful Antique Folk Art Boat with Spool Winder in Green and Red Paint post mortem daguerreotype with no chips or cracks

with no chips or cracks that I can see

printmaker and lithographer

Watercolor is in good condition

55 specimens total)

(I have found no other sets out there like this with a Prang label

Wonderful Antique Folk Art Boat with Spool Winder in Green and Red Paint post mortem daguerreotype with no chips or cracksI love this thing, found in Maine the other day. Super primitive, great original dark green and red paint, the latter of which has alligatored in an excellent way, with an old hand cranked spool via which a sail was once surely once raised and lowered. The sails are gone, but I love how one side of the the mast next to the crank is much worn, maybe even whittled some, in order to accommodate a hand that once very often it seems turned the crank to