Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame handmade mesh mask This is a beautiful large

This is a beautiful large painted/swabbed antique ash splint rectangular work basket

the color of the specimens is rich and each one beautiful

which I imagine Ed Mueller

and way out of my reach

) I am not certain the age but definitely fairly old--I'd guess early 1900s--and all appear to be addressed to Louise

Antique American Folk Watercolor of Ship as if Viewed Through Scope, in Period Frame handmade mesh mask This is a beautiful largeI love an old naive ship drawing or watercolor, and this I think is both a very charming and unusual example, with the ship circumscribed in a a circle, as if being viewed through a scope. (Of course this makes me imagine the person drawing it with pencil in one hand while holding a scope in the other, going back and forth working hard to capture all the details!) With an American flag waving proudly from the stern and sea below. There is pencil