OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain 8 1/2" x 12" and

8 1/2" x 12" and in overall good condition

whatever it was (perhaps menswear

here landing on the little hole carved out at the center of the base every time

Constructed of leather-covered cardboard with a red fabric lining

with just the right amount of wear and dings

OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain 8 1/2" x 12" andI've got a special love for hand drawn maps of many sorts (even more so now, as paper maps have become a relic of the pre digital pre GPS age), and this is a lovely one, red and black ink and watercolor. A fairly early one as far as American schoolwork maps go, and pretty rare that I see one devoted to a single state. (If only I had for each of the 31 states that existed in 1857, when William Donaldson drew and signed this!) I do have Arkansas,