Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo stencil painted pin cushion Plus what a brilliant thing

Plus what a brilliant thing crayon resist drawing/paintings are

and indeed I can't find any other example of old pin cushion with a stencil painted clock face like this out there anywhere

Purchased from a dealer with consistently lovely old textiles in New Hampshire

and most of all their faces--and attitudes

resting atop them

Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo stencil painted pin cushion Plus what a brilliant thingNothing makes me happier than exemplifications of pride in good, hard work, and I might guess this fireplace was the most ambitious bricklaying effort completed by these two young men to date, who look quite fresh in their coveralls, trowel in the hand of one (the other I imagine just outside the frame.) Perhaps young apprentices, or bricklaying students, I am not sure; there is a bit of handwriting on the reverse but it is hard to decipher. Very