Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate charming portrait One sees late 19th/earlyish 20th

One sees late 19th/earlyish 20th century tin lock boxes around

with two different images of islands incorporated

and understand that they were railroad signs--I assume this one (with reflective circle screwed on top of the painted yellow surface) signaled "caution"

A a very Izod-esque sort of alligator too

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate charming portrait One sees late 19th/earlyish 20thI love an old piece of stamp art, and how much better an elaborately decorated milk glass plate than a postcard, and even better such a pure piece of Americana as this! Quite a feat of labor and creativity just look at that marvelous flag, with all those tiny 1's and 2's making the pole and field of stars, and then this perimeter ring formed by carefully cut "United States" arches. With little heads of Washington and Lincoln and a few others I'm sure