Curious Miniature G.A.R (Civil War Veterans Fraternal) Ceramic Canteen with Rebus! French leather doll body with the wider left border

with the wider left border and narrow one below making the figure with spread arms

but also because I've been finding good ones everywhere

Lovely pin prick type detailing along the sides and back and toe

I never hesitate when I find 19th c watercolor drawings like this

Curious Miniature G.A.R (Civil War Veterans Fraternal) Ceramic Canteen with Rebus! French leather doll body with the wider left borderAnother curious one, which, as a lover of rebuses, there was no way I could resist though I'm not the least bit good solving them! I turned up a blog post devoted to miniature ceramic canteens, explaining them as a phenomenon of the Grand Army of the Republic (G. A. R.), a fraternal organization found in 1866 and composed of Civil War Union army navy marine veterans. (The miniature canteen form referencing canteens carried in combat.) And indeed, the