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

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

but I couldn't

the USS San Francisco was one of the most decorated ships of  WW2

and I love that both hands look as if gloved) and the crouching catcher

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