SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket A simple but very nicely

A simple but very nicely done old whimsy chain

which to my eye just enhance it

What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs

and rather unusual subject matter these sensitive seeming men in nature just talking

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket A simple but very nicelyThis struck me as so unusual when I found it, and indeed I can't find any other example of old pin cushion with a stencil painted clock face like this out there anywhere. And what to make of the very specific position of the hands, marking 4: 48 precisely? One sometimes sees 19th century pin cushions made to celebrate a birth (particularly with messages spelled out in stick pins); perhaps the time here marks the moment of a child's arrival in the