Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest and making opening the mail

and making opening the mail feel a little more festive

and stone lion looking on from above

It measures 4 1/2" tall x 2 5/8" wide x 1 5/8" deep

Most precarious is the clown topper--it is just a thin piece of wood (part of a toothpick I believe) that connects from a hole in his foot to a hole in the top of the wood dowel that elevates him

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate antique chest and making opening the mailI 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