SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays magazine holder This came from the Gloucester

This came from the Gloucester

and it may once have had an interior lid

with knobs and other bits and bobs used for the hats and bases

(I'll string a thin ribbon through it as a cinch closure before mailing

SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays magazine holder This came from the GloucesterSo fun, and clearly so much love invested in these. And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia I'd say good fodder for a short story. The full scale and general nature of them makes me imagine that they were not made by a father for his children, say, but rather perhaps for a group of three siblings still living together in their old age who knows?! How wonderfully crafted they were in any event, late 19th