Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor handmade flag but I find this late

but I find this late 19th/early 20th c cast iron horseshoe trivet with "my boy" sitting atop his white painted chamber pot pretty endearing

which suggests he or she was pretty proud of it

which also owned and operated the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros and The King Bros

with the mark dating them definitively to between 1845 - 1865

This carving came from an old estate in Damariscotta

Scroll and Crown Flower; Roses and Poem: Double-sided 1848 Theorem Watercolor handmade flag but I find this lateI could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, so lush and radiant, with the combination of greens on the leaves here just electric! Those red blooms are pretty electric, too, identified as "Crown flower" below. I like the blankness of the scroll here, as if in perpetual wait for the right words. But then on reverse, a rose with another scroll and a poem too, describing the summer breathing, roses blooming, sunbeams playing, and the