Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch antique needlework plus a couple of what

plus a couple of what seem to be chunks of yellow paint stuck to her apron

A truly wonderful set

At the center is this wonderful raised appliquéd woman holding a scythe

Jones’s philosophy since 1967 when he turned to his youthful hobby of whittling after his first wife’s death and his retirement from forty-five years with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

which would have matched popular decks of the time

Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch antique needlework plus a couple of whatMy general philosophy is to buy things whose sheer existence makes me happy, which is certainly the case with this, surely once the side of a trunk, iron handle still in place, and which someone cared enough to salvage. The red breasted yellow bird on branch of what looks a bit like bleeding hearts gives me all the pleasure of a fraktur watercolor, with the wavy yellow border and then dovetailed edges of the panel making the perfect frame! Plus that