Marvelous Old Folk Art Noah's Ark Animals (Polar Bear and White Dog?) - A Pair antique lustreware mostly blue on front and

mostly blue on front and black on reverse

most apparent on his green gloves but happening all over

This is one of a new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

Mid 19th century or so New England

apparently intended to provide profound thinking about the meaning of life

Marvelous Old Folk Art Noah's Ark Animals (Polar Bear and White Dog?) - A Pair antique lustreware mostly blue on front andThese are from a group of wonderful old handmade animals I found this past weekend in New Hampshire (and splurged a bit on as I think they're pretty special) I believe from a Noah's Ark set, though I'm not entirely sure all from the same set. I've divided them into a few pairs, and thought these two a perfect match. The larger, I would guess a polar bear, has jointed front and back legs; the smaller, who also looks a bit like a polar bear, though