Large 1901 Dark Blue Velvet Heart Shaped Emery with Hanging Loop antique angle embossed watercolors There is a bit of

There is a bit of warping to the base such that it sits not quite flush and the edge of stable has separated from the base a hair at one end

modern and earthy all rolled into one

which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card

In addition to all that is viscerally satisfying about it as a sculptural object now

but also to workers from the U

Large 1901 Dark Blue Velvet Heart Shaped Emery with Hanging Loop antique angle embossed watercolors There is a bit ofFrom one side this large antique heart shaped velvet emery pin cushion (definitely it is filled with emery powder, sand like in density and used from sharpening pins and needles) looks almost black (a black heart), but from the other true blue. The near black side clearly once showed a message spelled out in pins, some of which is lost but enough pins remain to discern the date of 1901 (and one could certainly add a few pins to make the year clearer