Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 miniature paintings and a few front pages

and a few front pages have small folds in the corners

so perhaps it was somehow glued/adhered flush to a mount

I picture ivy streaming down the sides of this marvelous hand thrown and sculpted stoneware planter as it hangs from a high hook in a plant-filled sunroom

Though I've photographed it in two segments

in the meantime I would simply set or hang this beautiful tool somewhere I could see it and pick it up more than occasionally

Minny Magdalene Brady Was Born In the Year of Our Lord, 1893 miniature paintings and a few front pagesThis one makes me happy on a whole bunch of levels, not the least of which is simply the name Minny Magdalene! Very faintly at top center, framed on all sides by these exuberant decorative flourishes, is written the name Wm. Brady followed by the year 1896, telling us that it was her father that drew this (which I've confirmed through research; they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth and or maybe it