SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes including for the fact that

including for the fact that the cow balances quite well on the back of the horse (though not quite so much vice verse

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

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

I would think 1840s-50s on this

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes including for the fact thatThis 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