Charming Old Pied Piper Tempera Painting on Brown Paper black and white sign And quite a character he

And quite a character he is

red and blue--are saturated and really almost jewel like

and it is one I handle pretty carefully as I believe it is really very old and somewhat fragile

this is just an amazing object to hold in your hand

Charming Old Pied Piper Tempera Painting on Brown Paper black and white sign And quite a character heI found this wonderful old painting tempera, I believe, on brown paper bag or craft paper in a very dirty old frame where it was taped to piece of cardboard and starting to deteriorate, but I loved it so much there was no way I was not going to rescue it! You can see that the area around the top of his shirt and right arm shows loss and is quite fragile; I've just set it atop a new sheet of cardboard to stabilize it for the time being, but best would