SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard world war 2 which I will stabilize with

which I will stabilize with clear archival tape before sending unless you prefer I not

then bisque dolls

or at least observed these beauties on the sea

With saints and angels on cloud at top

with its black eyes and beak

SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard world war 2 which I will stabilize withI spotted this board from a distance hanging on the wall at a shop I frequent regularly in inland Maine the other day and made a beeline for it such a beautiful combination of colors in very old paint; to my eye formal perfection. It does not appear that it was originally symmetrical i. e. I don't think there was ever a second "well" at "top", but it did lose the fourth side of the perimeter framing at the edge of the well that exists. My eye doesn't