Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate handmade dollhouse chairs Quite a lot of character

Quite a lot of character packed into this guy through quite an expressive  application and sculpting of lots of bits of clay

I dwell within my own doors and calm pass my time away

but featuring George Washington and the like) which sold in a Skinner Auction a few years ago

Visible area of painting: 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Abbott in 1880--I think it might be seeing "Dominion of Canada"  in writing

Amazing Patriotic Folk Art Stamp Collage on Milk Glass Plate handmade dollhouse chairs Quite a lot of characterI love an old piece of stamp art, and how much better an elaborately decorated milk glass plate than a postcard, and even better such a pure piece of Americana as this! Quite a feat of labor and creativity just look at that marvelous flag, with all those tiny 1's and 2's making the pole and field of stars, and then this perimeter ring formed by carefully cut "United States" arches. With little heads of Washington and Lincoln and a few others I'm sure