Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere vintage Mexican candleholder 19" in diameter

19" in diameter

as much as anything else in the world

Great on the table or desk (I think perhaps a useful stress reliever or thinking device)

exactly as pictured plus a few extras thrown in

Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere vintage Mexican candleholder 19" in diameterA 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