Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Allie, c. 1873 somers bros I'd think a spice box--the

I'd think a spice box--the space inside is not very large

The game is played by removing the blank square and mixing up the other numbered squares

Great old black and gold painted surface

but now they are just as is

I purchased this piece from an estate in Boston that included a wonderful mix of interesting antique and mid-century objects collected through travels around the world

Graphite and Watercolor Schoolgirl Portrait: Allie, c. 1873 somers bros I'd think a spice box--theFour of these I found together, only one of them dated on the back, locating them all I think in 1873. It seems they may each have been done by a different school girl each with a different name signed to the back, as well as a different subject named on the front. (Perhaps collected by a teacher?) A customer recently noted to me that naive drawings of this sort make her heart beat faster and the same is true for me, just pure joy. And hard to beat