Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest It's the frowning crescent moon

It's the frowning crescent moon above and accompanying phrase

and stone lion looking on from above

Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries ("Suzani" comes from the Persian "Suzan"

This is one of three 1970 marker drawings done by a child depicting specific athletes

but these old hand-drawn postcards have become my favorite thing of late

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest It's the frowning crescent moonI 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