Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage I just can't resist these

I just can't resist these early transferware motto plates--kind of like Battersea boxes

Day on the first yellow bead

Setting it somewhere now feels like inserting the presence of an all seeing eye or acknowledging the contemporary omnipresence of surveillance but in a wonderfully anachronistic way

What a special thing now to be the caretaker of

and quite a beautiful one I think

Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs doll in carriage I just can't resist theseAs I've noted elsewhere (because I'm proud of myself for doing it!), I spent several days over the holidays weeding through old boxes of stuff, almost all of which I dropped to Goodwill or boxed back up for the flea market next summer. But these I couldn't put away, they're too satisfying, and I could spend half the day just opening and closing and them, with the double hinged design making that feel a bit like a Rube Goldberg ian sort of event! The