A.H Homan's Late 19th C. Hand-stitched Leather Softball tabletop playt this piece would be perfect

this piece would be perfect on a vanity as a wonderful small storage cabinet for jewelry or other prized treasures

with a show of Max Ernst's work

Part of what I think makes it great is the darkness of the photograph

which I imagine Ed Mueller

but one of the slightly smaller Nine Men's Morris pieces can easily be used as a substitute

A.H Homan's Late 19th C. Hand-stitched Leather Softball tabletop playt this piece would be perfectI've said before and it continues to be true that I've got a special weakness for old hand stitched baseballs, softballs, and otherwise beautiful and resilient objects, bearing traces of every hand and bat that ever touched them, and prized enough for one reason or another to have endured (or found many years later out in far left field!). This is a hand stitched leather softball, late ish 19th c. I believe based on some research comparison. With a