AM's Boys in Red and Orange: Small Framed Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor smiling snowman excepting a dark red dye

excepting a dark red dye used on the eye lids

11 15/16" l x 7" w x 10 1/8" t and in good overall condition

but one can still open it the right way by rotating one half of the lid out

who has seen just about everything

AM's Boys in Red and Orange: Small Framed Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor smiling snowman excepting a dark red dyeI purchased this small watercolor from a dealer in Pennsylvania, about 2 minutes after it appeared on Ebay I believe. And Pennsylvania is certainly where it was made, quintessential Fraktur style naive watercolor, c. 1860s 80s I believe. Nothing I love more than a watercolor drawing like this, and a what a pair these two boys in their rich red tunics and orange pants and bright yellow collars with blue ties, heads together as if conspiring. And with