Early 19th C. Motto Plate, Experience Keeps a Dear School antique bottle which are very indicative of

which are very indicative of the rest

I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so swooned when I saw these

and this drawing

and I think made for ice fishing) super beautiful

they issued a set of 10 of these depicting athletes wearing jerseys from that school engaged in different sports: runner

Early 19th C. Motto Plate, Experience Keeps a Dear School antique bottle which are very indicative ofI just can't resist these early transferware motto plates kind of like Battersea boxes, but not quite as precious and perhaps old words of wisdom feel especially welcome these days. These particular words came from none other than Ben Franklin, and they do seem pretty wise to me though I'm not sure even a good deal of experience always wards off foolishness! I especially like this old school use of the word "dear" here, and very pretty wreath with bow