Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing edwin and mary scheier and also because it makes

and also because it makes the tin feel like a present and a promise of marvelous delights

with a bit of staining and a couple of tiny holes

but nearly all of the flat "tablets" or flat cardboard shape templates are present

Definitely made in Japan (he bears a very close resemblance to a few Japanese hand-puppets I've had in stock)

Ice House at Coes Pond, Perfectly Naive 1889 Watercolor Drawing edwin and mary scheier and also because it makesThe richness of the palette really makes this old drawing painting for me the ochres of the road, rendered with painterly dashes, and the whole spectrum of reds and brows and greens. Quite lovely, and feels very warm toward this place described as the Ice House at Coes Pond along the bottom, which a little research tells me places it near Worcester, MA. In those days 1889 here ice was harvested from ponds in the winter, a labor performed by dozens of