19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found carved object I thought this lovely old

I thought this lovely old darning ball needed a spot to sit

Berks County

I especially love his yellow glass eyes

Oil on artist board

and rather otherworldly

19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found carved object I thought this lovely oldThis one is old. And with a really sweet and special feeling about it, too. I imagine there were once two small, short drawers that fit into the niches at top long gone, but one doesn't really miss them. I'm not sure the story with the paint across the front of the two existing drawers, but it is definitely old too I think of the same period as the gray, which is original to it; perhaps the maker was considering a more decorative treatment but decided