Old Wooden Carnival Knockdowns with Fantastic Patina - Set of Three toby pitcher with what appears to be

with what appears to be “MM”  “’78” and VT

I've long been admiring sailor made macrame baskets

and it is definitely the sort of piece I would want to arrange the rest of a room around

Plenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870

This terrific old chalkboard is too large to have been a student's school slate

Old Wooden Carnival Knockdowns with Fantastic Patina - Set of Three toby pitcher with what appears to beThe surfaces on these three old carnival knockdowns which I guess I'd put in the category of bottle knockdowns are totally amazing, making them, to my eye, very beautiful, super juicy things. There are small chips to polychrome here and there, but for the most part the surfaces are smooth, with the history of being knocked down showing first and foremost in the accumulation of scuffs and stains to the white bodies. If there was ever a painterly