C. 1930s Western Electric Rotary Phone in Old White Paint, Ashland 4-5111 circus animal including losing the patterned roof

including losing the patterned roof and blue steeple that contribute to making this painting so striking

and to my eye just exactly the right sort of bowl to have live on the kitchen--ideally one with warmly worn butcher block countertops and warm afternoon sunlight

representing a quote from Isaiah 43:2 (When thou passest through the waters

Boman in Stockholm I believe (which also made a great deck of cards for a game called “Kille”)

but an old one

C. 1930s Western Electric Rotary Phone in Old White Paint, Ashland 4-5111 circus animal including losing the patterned roofNot just a great looking old phone, delivering all of the pleasures of rotary dialing, but this early model Western Electric was also given a custom paint job long ago and nothing better to my eye than old creamy white paint. And with original alphanumeric number at the center of the dial: AS(hland) 4 5111, I believe for Ashland, MA reminding one that phones were once linked to specific places! These Western Electric phones were the first widely