Fares of the Bridge, c. 1940s Snapshot of Historic Sign from Entrance to Former Hartford-East Hartford Covered Bridge antique chinese gouache painting polished to a high finish

polished to a high finish

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most commonly grouped into the categories of spongeware and spatterware

I'm forever looking for antique sets of geometric solids made by Prangs or Milton Bradley

6 1/2" tall x 5 1/8" wide

Fares of the Bridge, c. 1940s Snapshot of Historic Sign from Entrance to Former Hartford-East Hartford Covered Bridge antique chinese gouache painting polished to a high finishJust a fun one, which the notes on the reverse tell us is a photograph of a sign that once hung at the entrance to the covered bridge that extended across the Connecticut River connecting East Hartford and Hartford built in 1818 and destroyed by fire in 1895. With fares listed for just about every permutation of traveler and transport one could imagine, along with prices; down to 3 cents for each extra beast! A nicely straight ahead snapshot, with all