Outstanding brush work and striking late Impressionist color palette, signed Gertrude Sayen of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. (Client identified as Mrs. S.W. Fales, whose husband shows on the 1930 patent rolls). Nice condition and surface mounted to...
SUCH a fabulous little object. Union Made Cigar label dates to 1880, remnants of the tax stamp on box lid. Repurposed sometime in the early 20thc by a child with rocks, teeth (bear or cat?)...