SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes especially antique miniature watercolored ones--such

especially antique miniature watercolored ones--such beautiful

with general wear all over and surface dings here  and there

I presume done by a child named Dora long ago--the watercolored letters spelling out "A Merry Xmas" certainly seem so--but what a fantastically elegant frog (toad

including for the fact that the cow balances quite well on the back of the horse (though not quite so much vice verse

and I must say the vertically oriented composition with strategically arranged hanging fruits makes me wonder whether this wasn't meant as a nod to a nude torso of a woman

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes especially antique miniature watercolored ones--suchThis 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