SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes with some wear and aging

with some wear and aging to both the mirror and the wood as accurately documented in photos

but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties--most immediately that hand printed paper cover

with general wear all over and surface dings here  and there

especially antique miniature watercolored ones--such beautiful

There is a small hole in the top of the wood and another directly below it in the bottom

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes with some wear and agingThis 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