Lovely Old Bunched Fabric Pin Cushion eastern star sign ) I've got a weakness

) I've got a weakness for ships in bottles

with just one little flaw to the edge of one plate

who signed it on the bird side in the same red ink he used to annotate the drawings in fancifully dotted cursive

much alligatored in places and with very mellowed gold paint around the edges of the top and on the carved bits running vertical to the mirror

or anywhere in between and turning the crank really is pure pleasure

Lovely Old Bunched Fabric Pin Cushion eastern star sign ) I've got a weaknessI think perhaps this pin cushion may have been meant to represent a pineapple, with the red Christmas ribbon like the spiky greens on top, and with the pineapple being a symbol of gracious welcome. It also looks a little like a bunch of grapes, though or a hand grenade! What a charming thing in any case, feeling like a present or a whole bundle of them, with a wide variety of what look to me like shirt fabrics bundled up into colorful little nodes and