Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame antique schoolgirl map There is one small rim

There is one small rim chip

where this couple with backs turned to one another  seem as if they were destined for perching on either side of this table

all of which

2 3/4" in diameter and 3/16" thick

but they were made by Creative Playthings in their heyday of producing fabulous teaching toys

Mid-Century Gouache on Paper, Unsigned Abstraction in Period Frame antique schoolgirl map There is one small rimThis was the first thing that caught my eye as I walked into a show in Bath, Maine last weekend, and it has caught my eye a hundred times since! Mid century I believe, gouache on what looks like watercolor paper, in a deep period frame, gold on the facing edge. Perhaps this was done in art class as a exercise in color and form, or perhaps the work of a well known practicing artist, maybe signed somewhere not visible. (I have not taken it out of the