Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing painted wooden chest of drawers To me they seem like

To me they seem like perfect birthday gifts--though sadly only for people much younger than me

Hawthorne Mass

--and all the better a little silver one

The production of these "trinket" baskets became a cottage industry in the 1860s and reached its height in the 1930s

And then also just the evocativeness of the word "gilt

Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing painted wooden chest of drawers To me they seem likeA couple of more wonderfully colorful naive antique drawings today, including this one, that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings salvaged from the notebook indicate that it was quite a masterpiece! Happily we have a few, and they fill me at