Seascape with Boat, 1945 Folk Art Painted Seashell kansas bird wonderfully strange looking thing

wonderfully strange looking thing

and quite dreamy

I'm really taken with this little papier mache doll

associated now with a residential address on Defiance Street (which seems perfectly right

with a few small scuffs on one side

Seascape with Boat, 1945 Folk Art Painted Seashell kansas bird wonderfully strange looking thingSpending a lot of time on the New England coast, I've come to very much appreciate folk art painted shells (and being from the clamming hub of Ipswich, MA, I especially like a painted clam shell), but it's none to often I come across one as charming as this. Written on the flip side of the shell, in pencil, appears to be the phrase "speed boat", and a great little boat it is, red flag waving at front, set against rich blue sea and sky. Very