Handsome Young Sailor, USS San Francisco, C. WW2 Snapshot vintage faience vase I’m pretty partial to the

I’m pretty partial to the house with tree and green grass

With its great architectural handle (which perfectly accommodates two fingers) and flat pedestal base

and quite a different beast than the theorem still lives of fruits and flowers that were much more common

with lots of good pottery to found there

Handsome Young Sailor, USS San Francisco, C. WW2 Snapshot vintage faience vase I’m pretty partial to theA handsome, sensitive looking, very young sailor, late 1930s or so, I believe (looking a bit like a young Barack Obama to me!), with his hat reading USS San Francisco. Commissioned in 1934, the USS San Francisco was one of the most decorated ships of WW2, used heavily in the South Pacific. I especially like photos of young sailors who look like they've just put on their uniforms for the first time and are posing for a photo to leave with their mother;