Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint plate I love both images on

I love both images on their own

There's a lot of old toleware out there that does nothing for me

starting in the 1940s

or tea bags--is a great example

Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint plate I love both images onIf I were to imagine the purest expression of a folk art architectural structure I could, this would be it. And very happily, it was accompanied by a card identifying its maker, Clifford M. Guptill, of Lubec, Maine (the easternmost municipality in the contiguous U. S.) who constructed it at the Lubec Lifesaving Station in 1910. (I've included a 1905 photo of that station found online; perhaps our Clifford is one of the men standing beside it!) All