Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport This wonderful little watercolor painting

This wonderful little watercolor painting feels so familiar

and wonderfully irregular

and looks great on the counter or shelf

and his pose

The playing board itself is covered with glass and framed in four pieces of wood nailed to the larger board

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin nine pin kegelsport This wonderful little watercolor paintingI didn't know these were a thing, but have learned that they very much are, some quite finely done, this one more humble but I think pretty charming still. Essex crystals are also known as 'reverse intaglios, ' made of a cabochon of colourless rock quartz that has been carved on the flat side after which the details of the design are painted, creating a three dimensional 'trompe l'oeil effect'. I believe that is the case here, or at least it was made,