Thickly Caked Large Old Wooden Painter's Palette vintage toy bowling set who made this in Miss

who made this in Miss Adams' classroom

And on the opposite inside page a note that it was a birthday present to Betsey Adams (Nellie) from her friend Dorinda Conant

with plenty of stains and old fold marks

) across the distance of a century plus

fancily painted

Thickly Caked Large Old Wooden Painter's Palette vintage toy bowling set who made this in MissPerhaps the painter who used this palette made paintings on board that they rested right on it, forcing the use of the palette itself to the borders, where the paint build up is about 3 4 of an inch deep, creating a a nice edge for a panel to push up against. Or, perhaps they scraped and cleaned the rest away but left the border as history. In either case, pretty beautiful to me, and with a great sense of future possibility about it. 15 1 4" t x 12 1