Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate rounded box The flower frog is in

The flower frog is in very good condition

which feels as much like a sculpture as a utilitarian object

which interlock to allow for even spacing between letters

and the upper left corners of chunk of pages a bit flea-bitten (all as pictured) but copies this old are quite rare and I think it is a pretty special thing to own

Girl with Spools Antique Painting on School Slate rounded box The flower frog is inI thought this sweet little painting Victorian era, I'd think on an old school slate would make a great gift for an emerging seamstress, or anyone handy with a needle and thread, really. I love how the spool to her left appears to be falling from the sky, like a shooting star, and she reminds me of a waif from Dickens or the like, with this moment signaling her destiny yet to unfold! All of this is made even better by the old gold paint on the wood