Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion modern folk art showing the wood underneath (easily

showing the wood underneath (easily repaired) and there is a bit of loss of lacquer around the underside edge of the lid

both for keeping liquids fresh and preventing spills

This beautifully proportioned box I found filled with vintage matchbooks and a few newspaper clippings

a dog with a ball

loss of gold leaf/paint as noted

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion modern folk art showing the wood underneath (easilyThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches