SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware I'd never seen a pocket

I'd never seen a pocket knife carved entirely of wood

but the paint job on the mustard yellow cow with blue eye and cowbell is pretty hard to beat

as noted on the back of the gray backing card to which it is mounted

and the moat-like platform it sits on

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child vintage barware I'd never seen a pocketI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye