Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls Almost all of the pieces--shaped

Almost all of the pieces--shaped like arrows and paddles and bows and spades--have a number value written on one side

with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and lid

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

Quite luminous

The visible neck of the snake is about 2 1/2" long

Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls Almost all of the pieces--shapedThis old PONY sign is, to me, pure perfection. Aesthetically, this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets, but then is a made a hundred times better yet for spelling out the word "Pony" which, in my mind, embodies the dreamy dreams of adolescent girls everywhere; visions of a sugar cube and carrot eating, blue ribbon winning, gentle and true, gracefully galloping horse. The hand painted letters march along a horizontal