SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror leaves and roots

leaves and roots

one glued to the corner of the other

The drawing over collage was laid down on white paper

I really can't imagine any better soap dish for next to the bathroom sink or on the lip of the tub than this one

SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror leaves and rootsI really love how Vernon E. Leighton stitched two ruled pages together in order to fully capture all of Uncle Sam's new buildings in Bangor Maine, which he did quite wonderfully I think, with careful attention to all the windows and doors, down to the the tassels and loops hanging from the shades in the bay windows of the house. A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer, with works including "A Soldier's Dream," published