Faye Lucie Hart's Excellent Early 20th Century Sewing Book in Beautiful Condition naive poems and very finely made

and very finely made

I have a hard time resisting these old acrobat squeeze toys when the acrobats themselves are really good

The tintype

for me it's also about how that black ink stamp interacts with the rest of the elements--in this case simultaneously blotting out and illuminating the pinkish red of the 3 cent stamp

Just some more antique clay marbles

Faye Lucie Hart's Excellent Early 20th Century Sewing Book in Beautiful Condition naive poems and very finely madeThis is a really lovely, very good condition, and very comprehensive example of a sewing lessons samples notebook, early 20th century, notable also for including extensive notes written in a nice hand covering topics from needles to thimbles to various sewing techniques. But of course it is the sewing samples themselves that make it great, 18 of them here, many incorporating Faye Hart's name of initials, and all very nicely executed. Various types of