SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon The message on the back

The message on the back of the postcard

I just love these little tin boats

with wear to the paint on the base as evident and a bit of loss to his cream colored paint in a few posts along with a little crazing

with some fading to the green on the underside

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon The message on the backThe alabaster doves I have foound most similar in manner to this one are later 19th century Italian; whether that is the case here I am not certain, but it certainly seems to have a good amount of age. This one certainly seems poised as if to perch on the edge of an urn and perhaps it once did; there is a little roughness to the flat underside of the feet but not enough to tell me for sure. Whatever the case, I love a dove, and a marble carving, and I