Vintage c. 1970 Fornasetti Conchiglie (Seashell) Plate ceramic flower frog with four separate setting dials

with four separate setting dials on the back

when hard-shelled electric miner's cap lamps began to replace canvas caps with brackets to which oil lamps attached

probably a hundred years ago or so

This one is very much all about numbers--really purely a book of math problems and solutions

the dog faces abuse from people in town

Vintage c. 1970 Fornasetti Conchiglie (Seashell) Plate ceramic flower frog with four separate setting dialsA happy surprise to find this one at a shop in coastal New Hampshire the other day where I don't often find much and it was a bit hidden in a far corner, not identified as Fornasetti by the dealer. But Fornasetti it is, stamped on reverse and signed, too one of a set of "Conchiglie" dinner plates Fornasetti produced in the late 1960s early 1970s (there's a set of six on 1st dibs for $1650.) With sprawling starfish at center, and a mussel (complete