Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate handmade dollhouse chairs I love this maximal--minimal simultaneity

I love this maximal--minimal simultaneity about it

Visible area of painting: 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"

solid and sturdy as could be

which I'm taking as a assertion of power and self possession

Abbott in 1880--I think it might be seeing "Dominion of Canada"  in writing

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate handmade dollhouse chairs I love this maximal--minimal simultaneityI love an old piece of stamp art, and how much better an elaborately decorated milk glass plate than a postcard, and even better such a pure piece of Americana as this! Quite a feat of labor and creativity just look at that marvelous flag, with all those tiny 1's and 2's making the pole and field of stars, and then this perimeter ring formed by carefully cut "United States" arches. With little heads of Washington and Lincoln and a few others I'm sure