Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing otter with just a little dryness/light

with just a little dryness/light cracking to the wood

8 11/16" x 2 7/16" x 1 3/4" and in very good

This set of three gorgeous Cinnabar-colored Burmese lacquer betel boxes makes me want to find appropriately lovely and unexpected little things to store inside

who shared that two generations of children in the family had played with them as children

Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing otter with just a little dryness/lightI pretty much never come across such a wonderful, early frame as this, and as I don't currently have something quite worthy of it in hand, I'm offering it up to be used for the precisely perfect thing which I'd say would be a Pennsylvania fraktur watercolor! I know from the seller it came from Berks County, PA, and based on a fair bit of comparison with early grain painted early PA frames out there, I believe it dates to the 1830s 40s. Beautifully