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I'm a sucker for a very naive watercolor of roses

then went back to the same seller this week to snap up one more from the same volume

here whole pages of words including "Lamentation"

Glazed a striking

Special & Extra Money (Self), Very Sweet Antique Treen Coin Bank lead soldiers world travellerThis one I purchased from a lovely young dealer, who is always kind to point out to me things she thinks I'll appreciate, and invariably she is right. It is the interior of this small coin bank that makes it special, between that beautiful blue papered top with scattered jottings on it (maybe the year 1919?) and, especially, the carefully lettered and pasted in naming of what contents it was designated to hold: "Special & Extra Money" on one side, and