Beautifully Shaped and Aged Tall Antique French Skittles with Two Balls diamond pips I think the carver

I think the carver

but more so the less common to find woven and folded paper samplers

with such an immediacy that I'd want to pin it straight on the wall from the top two corners and just let it hang loose

it is all about the combination of form and surface

with a small nick at the right lower corner

Beautifully Shaped and Aged Tall Antique French Skittles with Two Balls diamond pips I think the carverI know these tall pins were recently nabbed at a flea market in Paris, and then I purchased them from the seller who brought them home to Maine. It takes a lot to sell me on wooden skittles at this point, which one comes across fairly often, but these I was sold on immediately for the beauty and grace of of their elongated turned forms, and also for the very subtle red and blue paint color still on them just lovely.(As with most everything, these are