Old Wooden Carnival Knockdowns with Fantastic Patina - Set of Three toby pitcher very worn in some areas

very worn in some areas and not much in others

Plenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870

these show a little nice irregularity too-- both in the bone and a bit in size too--all to the good to my sensibilities

This particular bottle I belleve dates sometime between the 1910s-20s

This terrific old chalkboard is too large to have been a student's school slate

Old Wooden Carnival Knockdowns with Fantastic Patina - Set of Three toby pitcher very worn in some areasThe surfaces on these three old carnival knockdowns which I guess I'd put in the category of bottle knockdowns are totally amazing, making them, to my eye, very beautiful, super juicy things. There are small chips to polychrome here and there, but for the most part the surfaces are smooth, with the history of being knocked down showing first and foremost in the accumulation of scuffs and stains to the white bodies. If there was ever a painterly