Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces A few weeks ago

A few weeks ago

but it was so lovingly and labor-intensively made (taking three years

The black field appears to be black ink (all hand-drawn with a pen I think rather than a brush) and the animals rendered in what appears to be a combination of ink and pastel or wax crayon

but I am not sure about the other boxer

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Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces A few weeks agoI've had a bit of a string of acquiring things I find quite evocative but know very little about and here's another! I have no idea how or why this gold painted ball with hooks all over came to be, but I love it as an object, and it would make a pretty effective hanger now for rings of keys, or necklaces, or sprigs of mistletoe! There is a loop at top from which it could be hung from a wire or ribbon or string I might suggest from the ceiling so as to