Lush Antique Naive Watercolor of Peach with Blue Leaves side opening and porcupine quills popping out

and porcupine quills popping out everywhere--at an antique shop in Newburyport

With a frame size of 8" x 5 3/4"

I love an old Sun Rubber car or truck or streamlined bus as I believe this one is

both materially and emotionally

Lush Antique Naive Watercolor of Peach with Blue Leaves side opening and porcupine quills popping outThe color on this is as lush as it gets, and to my eye it's really a gorgeous thing, very much a peach, but veering toward pure abstraction; naive and very sophisticated at the same time. 2nd half 19th c, on ruled paper with an embossed "Congress" mark at top corner, this I believe would have been done a school aged child, and the manner makes me think likely Pennsylvania. 9 3 4" x 7 5 8"". I found this watercolor cleanly split in two, and used