Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) great present I'm pretty certain this was

I'm pretty certain this was once the lid on a chip-carved folk art box

The lighter does not work as is

Beautiful just as an object

with each link in the chain slightly wider than the previous until terminating in a looped piece attached by what seem to me to be wooden pegs to a wooden end

All painted bright pink with yellow

Charter Oak, Earlier 19th Century Folk Art Watercolor in Original Lemon Gold Frame with Provenance (Almon Babcock, Ravenna, Ohio) great present I'm pretty certain this wasLove at first sight for me with this tree and a perfect marriage of watercolor and frame plus provenance pinned to the back of it in the form of notes written on a Prudential envelope postmarked in 1971. The tree pictured is described on that envelope as "Charter Oak, Boston, MA" and the watercolor as having belonged to Almon Babcock of Ravenna, Ohio "who had one of the first taverns here in early 1800s Supposed to have been made by one of his