Gang of Painted Folk Art Clothes Pin People with Monogrammed Backs punch paper drawings Continuing today's theme of funny

Continuing today's theme of funny little things I couldn't resist

letting the rest of the design fade back into invisibility

I'm not sure what its original use would have been

5" x 5 1/4"

but here this beautiful small footed bowl with coppery glaze I just stumbled upon in Maine

Gang of Painted Folk Art Clothes Pin People with Monogrammed Backs punch paper drawings Continuing today's theme of funnyNo way could I resist these guys lined up neatly and smiling back at me. Each clothes pin person bears a different painted monogram on reverse, so perhaps a group project maybe the work of a group of waiters, used for pinning up their aprons to dry! I do think these would be fun for place settings at a dinner party i. e. pinned over folded napkins placed at the center of plates around a long table. Happy things. Tallest 5" long. Set of eleven. A bit