OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain 8 1/2" x 12" and

8 1/2" x 12" and in overall good condition

is in exceptional condition and  just stunning

There is one small chip to the handle as pictured

and many years in it yet

with just the right amount of wear and dings

OHIO! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 blue and white porcelain 8 1/2" x 12" andI've got a special love for hand drawn maps of many sorts (even more so now, as paper maps have become a relic of the pre digital pre GPS age), and this is a lovely one, red and black ink and watercolor. A fairly early one as far as American schoolwork maps go, and pretty rare that I see one devoted to a single state. (If only I had for each of the 31 states that existed in 1857, when William Donaldson drew and signed this!) I do have Arkansas,