Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette travel watercolor set I love a box with

I love a box with a name or monogram painted on it

stands squarely on its own (and no recessing in the base

structurally in great shape with a truly fantastic surface and wonderful sound

A striking image

I have not touched the brass on this piece but think it would shine up some if desired

Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette travel watercolor set I love a box withI find these old homemade cloth balls just the loveliest things. Usually, one finds them sewn together of pieces of oil cloth, most often in two alternating colors. But here, the cloth is more like linen, and the color more as if hand dyed, soft and radiant. And a most as beautiful a combination of three shades as could be. Perhaps the yellow, with shows a bit of a different texture, once had an oil cloth sort of surface that long ago wore away;