Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere vintage Mexican candleholder as much as anything else

as much as anything else in the world

Just a sweet little handmade wooden chicken coop invested with lots of love and care

but only a few traces on the front

which I assume dates to the 1940s

19" in diameter

Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere vintage Mexican candleholder as much as anything elseA total charmer of a naive ship drawing, drawn in graphite by H. Smith of Lawrence, MA, "in the evening" of November 30, 1854 on pale blue wove paper. With Ben Franklin lettered across the side of the hull, and more B. F. s everywhere, I believe the drawing represents the first USS Franklin (there were more to follow), built in 1815, the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and razed, in 1852, in Portsmouth, NH which would make