Great Old Stone Fruit Bruised Golden Apple bead eye dated 1918

dated 1918

a planographic printing process

There are lots of things I love about this old sign

sapphire blue velvet just above the ferrule

Great Old Stone Fruit Bruised Golden Apple bead eye dated 1918I continue to inspect pieces of stone fruit wherever I go, only pulling the trigger when I find an especially good and singular specimen. This gently browning golden apple is really a beauty I think, with its speckles all over together with veins in the alabaster showing through making it extremely believable if not all that appetizing! With one very dark bruise (looks like a worm hole bruise to me) on one side and what might be a small patch of paint