To Be Kept for Betsy...Antique Ribbon with Sequined, Metallic Thread Embroidered Stars blue body vintage Bennington Potters piece

vintage Bennington Potters piece

I'm forever on the hunt for Victorian pressed sea moss albums--harder and harder to find

and I just really love that photo postcards were used to share astronomical phenomenon such as this

The deck features 45 cards with wonderful graphics

The set includes 16 clay and 1 wood marble and what I believe it a pretty old fabric pouch in which they came

To Be Kept for Betsy...Antique Ribbon with Sequined, Metallic Thread Embroidered Stars blue body vintage Bennington Potters pieceThis one is of the sort that I just find it impossible not to become the caretaker of, for a bit or forever such a sucker I am for a handwritten note expressing concern about the future of a handmade, sentimental thing! The note as I read it instructs the recipient to keep these for Betsy "put new ribbon on three stars, and when Betsy graduates, if she lives (!), she can wear her ganmo's (I take this as a grandmother's nickname) three stars given to