Little Gem of an Antique Oil Painting: Pipe with Matches and Ashtray little wooden box I wonder if it is

I wonder if it is not a painting of a house in which the couple previously lived

This is a very lovely Arts & Crafts letter holder by Forest Mann

Ritter also studied at Columbia University and at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art

--that went into making things with matches

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Little Gem of an Antique Oil Painting: Pipe with Matches and Ashtray little wooden box I wonder if it isA total gem of a small painting I think, which if I weren't so much in the habit of listing things quickly, I'd take the time to find a nice fat black frame for, which would really make it sing. Beautifully done, oil on board, with wonderful attention given to every detail, right down to each carefully arranged match in that lovely red and white striped vessel. Renderings of pipes always make me think of Magritte, and I think Magritte would have