Naive Antique Ink and Graphite Drawing of Colonial Ship Hannah hand-thrown cup and overall a fair amount

and overall a fair amount of surface wear to the wood

perhaps before the drawing was made

reminding me a lot of sailor made knot work baskets I've had

Nice patina and nice iron nails holding it all together

I'd guess this frame dates to the 1940s or so

Naive Antique Ink and Graphite Drawing of Colonial Ship Hannah hand-thrown cup and overall a fair amountTaped to the front of this drawing when I found it, and also written on the back of the frame, is a note that George Washington commissioned Capt. Nicholas Broughton of Marblehead (near where I found this) and the schooner Hannah into the service of the United Colonies on Sept 2, 1775. I'm not sure where our little man in tricorn hat at lower right is meant to be Washington, or Broughton, or someone else, but I sure love him, and the two little