Curious Miniature G.A.R (Civil War Veterans Fraternal) Ceramic Canteen with Rebus! classic design blocks I especially love the blue

I especially love the blue rimmed button at top giving her a tiny head

But also this beautifully faded hand-dyed dotted calico

only a couple of minor tears and bent corners and minor staining

which redirects air from the hole in the mouthpiece

There is one nail sticking up at the center top

Curious Miniature G.A.R (Civil War Veterans Fraternal) Ceramic Canteen with Rebus! classic design blocks I especially love the blueAnother 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