Sweet Old Painted Tin Folk Art Boats with Candle Holders For Floating oak Striking from every angle

Striking from every angle

which is painted a solid aqua

tightly stretched and attached to stretcher

The back is papered over but it appears to me to be painted (in oil) on a thin wooden panel

) were painstakingly embedded into it surface at some point to turn it into a large

Sweet Old Painted Tin Folk Art Boats with Candle Holders For Floating oak Striking from every angleFound in Pennsylvania, and scratch made from tin, these painted boat forms with candle holders were I believe were made to float in a pond or lake, illuminated. And how nice it would be to for them to do that again! Pretty sweet though just set on a shelf now, or holding candles in the window or on the table. (They require candles a bit smaller than your average taper.) Lovely forms and great old painted surfaces, creamy white and plum and green. Each