Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA wooden revolver This piece I believe is

This piece I believe is a portion of an antique Middle Eastern camel saddle bag

which hooks neatly through the chain link at the opposite end

transforming as they cross borders of the rounded forms

Just a terrific looking

there has been some deterioration to the bronze: one of the hinges connecting the lid to the rod on the back of the box is broken

Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA wooden revolver This piece I believe isI was told that this wonderful old tin mill came from the Dummer estate in Rowley, MA (more below) and was commissioned by one of the Dummers as a model of sorts of the original colonial era fulling mill on the property built by John Pearson on the Mill River, and significantly responsible for making Rowley the birthplace of the American woolen industry. It's a bit confusing, as there were several iterations of the fulling mill, and there was also a