Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame 1865 sampler with a little wire loop

with a little wire loop on his back should one want to hang him

with a nice dry patina to what I believe is pine

and because I feel like one can never have too many nice old sets of wooden building blocks at one's disposal

I've always got an eye peeled for beautiful antique sets of Spillikins

He thought it likely a mirror carried by someone in the military--small

Chicks Eating Strawberries, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board, Original Frame 1865 sampler with a little wire loopSometimes a sweet and cheering old folk painting is just what's in order, and this one is very much that, making me very happy when I found it in inland southern Maine this week. Who can argue with fluffy yellow chicks and lushly ripe red strawberries? I love the big green cabbage leaf serving as a basket for the berries, too and the red dripping from the greedy little beaks of these two! Great carved wooden frame too in mellow gold paint, I believe