Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame 1980s vase 6 1/2" long x 3

6 1/2" long x 3 1/2" deep x 4" tall

with individuated fingers

and very usable still for keeping lists of all sorts of things

with a backing page behind it dating it to 1840

and it takes zero flower arranging skills to make it work

Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame 1980s vase 6 1/2" long x 3I'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor, but I really really love it, with its big dark sky enveloping what looks like a western frontier structure to me, and cowboy looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire. Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist, which I just listed, my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west, late 19th century or so,