Spain and Portugal: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map mission pottery wanting to be rescued

wanting to be rescued

I have learned just a bit about bee boxes—a pretty cool thing to collect I think

These charming

and put back together

and house with fabulous checkerboard roof

Spain and Portugal: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map mission pottery wanting to be rescuedI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These (this is one of five I am listing) I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these