OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain with just the right amount

with just the right amount of wear and dings

1840s zoological watercolors

whatever it was (perhaps menswear

but in terrific shape and it is near impossible to stop his head and tail from bobbling

here landing on the little hole carved out at the center of the base every time

OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain with just the right amountI've got a special love for hand drawn maps of many sorts (even more so now, as paper maps have become a relic of the pre digital pre GPS age), and this is a lovely one, red and black ink and watercolor. A fairly early one as far as American schoolwork maps go, and pretty rare that I see one devoted to a single state. (If only I had for each of the 31 states that existed in 1857, when William Donaldson drew and signed this!) I do have Arkansas,