Little Gem of an Antique Oil Painting: Pipe with Matches and Ashtray antique spice box set which looks like colored pencil

which looks like colored pencil to me (with a few small bleeds where a a couple of drops of water hit it as some point) appears to be in very very good condition

Open 8 1/8" across

And the extraordinary skill

as two is even better than one

) I believe this deck is either French or German

Little Gem of an Antique Oil Painting: Pipe with Matches and Ashtray antique spice box set which looks like colored pencilA 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