Latitia Heston's Thrice Handed Down Miniature Ink and Watercolor Map of Europe with Handwritten Provenence Envelope antique draughts but sometimes they start to

but sometimes they start to blur together

Harry Ingalls of Swampscott

meaning that all those many many chip carved bits are small in scale and were very precisely laid

with a little paint loss

and then these thin trails of lines surrounding them like a soft cloud

Latitia Heston's Thrice Handed Down Miniature Ink and Watercolor Map of Europe with Handwritten Provenence Envelope antique draughts but sometimes they start toThis is the sort of thing that breaks my heart and makes me glad to be human. Just over 2 inches in diameter, it is a tiny ink and watercolor map of Europe on paper, done with extreme care (can you imagine?) by a Latitia Heston, mid 19th century or so, who signed her name to the reverse, following a verse, that indicates it was made as a token of friendship: In all the varying scene Which fate or fortune send When distance intervene Remind thee of a