Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland but it feels rather more

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

and fertilizer in addition to beef tea

in the nice old wooden frame I found it in

with a patch at one corner

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland but it feels rather moreI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.