Large 1901 Dark Blue Velvet Heart Shaped Emery with Hanging Loop American folk art and surely through first hand

and surely through first hand observation as he would have known the Rutland Railroad intimately

simply a long

I think the pointy yellow shards emerging from the mouth of this strange creature do a pretty great job of giving form to a shrill cry

but in terrific shape and it is near impossible to stop his head and tail from bobbling

Large 1901 Dark Blue Velvet Heart Shaped Emery with Hanging Loop American folk art and surely through first handFrom one side this large antique heart shaped velvet emery pin cushion (definitely it is filled with emery powder, sand like in density and used from sharpening pins and needles) looks almost black (a black heart), but from the other true blue. The near black side clearly once showed a message spelled out in pins, some of which is lost but enough pins remain to discern the date of 1901 (and one could certainly add a few pins to make the year clearer