Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster ) I especially love the

) I especially love the fact that many of those messages are the opposite of saccharine

then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co

I am not a great expert on portrait miniatures

A perfect gift from a father to a son or daughter with a love for early English transferware I'd say

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster ) I especially love theAnother example of mends making something much more special. This is an antique oyster painted pantry box (no lid), to my eye made very beautiful by the nail repairs to the splits along the bottom long ago, which have the effect of calling attention to the sweeping lines of those splits, and giving a sense of gesture and movement to the whole thing. On the flip side are nails marching up the front, but it is the otherwise spare mended side (with