We Saw Planes Go Up and Down, 1931 Hand-written Letter to Daddy, More on Reverse monogrammed slate but often one sees porcelain

but often one sees porcelain manufactured in one country and decorated in another

or as a vase used with a flower frog or foam brick

in this a gorgeous range of ambers

One sees hand-colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor

Wonderful on the table at breakfast or coffee time

We Saw Planes Go Up and Down, 1931 Hand-written Letter to Daddy, More on Reverse monogrammed slate but often one sees porcelainPerfectly lettered pure found poetry to me. Leave it to a young child to distill something to its essence. And as such this feels like it holds a whole world in it, including planes going down in ways unimagined in 1931. 8 1 4" x 6 1 4". Irregular right edge as evident and a few smudges. Graphite on lined paper (more bold in hand) with some beautiful, emphatic seeming lettering and scribbling on reverse too.