Marvelous Oil on Board Triple Portrait, with Logan Drake, Founder of Silver Beach Amusement Park fine handblown glass but no fuss and quite

but no fuss and quite elegant

I'm a sucker for beautiful fishing floats

Yesterday I came across a bunch of old handmade valentines

which you just want to run your fingers through

with just the right amount of wear and dings

Marvelous Oil on Board Triple Portrait, with Logan Drake, Founder of Silver Beach Amusement Park fine handblown glass but no fuss and quiteThis painting! I purchased it from a wonderful seller in Boston, who told me it has come from an estate connected to a traveling carousel somewhere on a lake in Michigan, and that the figure at right was the impresario but he wasn't sure of exactly where or the the name. Well, a little research led me to the amazing history of the Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph on Lake Michigan, launched in 1891 and of which a carousel was but a small part,