Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere Wagner sign co ready to swat at the

ready to swat at the tiny balls that hover above these tiny nets

10 1/8" t x 9 11/16" w and in great vintage condition

right down to his slightly off center belly button

Photos best portray the damage to the lid--the lip has come apart from the flat part of the lid on one side

18 1/8" l x 4 3/4" t x 2 1/2" w

Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere Wagner sign co ready to swat at theA total charmer of a naive ship drawing, drawn in graphite by H. Smith of Lawrence, MA, "in the evening" of November 30, 1854 on pale blue wove paper. With Ben Franklin lettered across the side of the hull, and more B. F. s everywhere, I believe the drawing represents the first USS Franklin (there were more to follow), built in 1815, the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and razed, in 1852, in Portsmouth, NH which would make