SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket and rather unusual subject matter

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

I'd guess 1940s-50s

married to Nahum Swallow on December 22

A simple but very nicely done old whimsy chain

and one just feels more serene in their presence

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket and rather unusual subject matterThis 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