Unusual Old Hand-carved Folk Art Mechanical Spinning Wheel, Working Smoothly wood scoop Sweden in the province of

Sweden in the province of Dalarna--established in 1928 and known as the "premiere Dala workshop" in Sweden

I like the out of focus-ness of his hands and lower body

Very happily

with some darkening/fading to the wallpaper but minimal loss

Unusual Old Hand-carved Folk Art Mechanical Spinning Wheel, Working Smoothly wood scoop Sweden in the province ofThere are moments like when I am driving through a snowstorm to get to an antique show when I consider the absurdity of the lengths the hunt for things takes us. As a dealer of small things, flying to shows out of town, as with the Nashville shows, means packing one suitcase inside another, to fill the larger (and much of the smaller too) with things found. But then there are the things that won't quite fit, usually a good handful of them, so they're