Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial antique ships of fine Lisbon sugar cost

of fine Lisbon sugar cost me 58l

This is one of three woodblock postcards I purchased from a seller in Japan--one of two wonderful monkeys from 1932

Northern Quebec)

which in some child's imagination surely embarked on all sorts of sea adventures

Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial antique ships of fine Lisbon sugar costI've always got an eye out for folk art clock dials like this, which I believe would have been used for teaching learning how to read time on a clock. I love the simple earnestness of this one, and that it is shaped like the silhouette of a house, and especially those cut tin hands of the dial, the elongated form of which I think lends a certain elegance and grace to the whole thing. The roman numerals of the dial appear to have been incised then