Gang of Painted Folk Art Clothes Pin People with Monogrammed Backs punch paper drawings but here this beautiful small

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

this one a geometry notebook from 1838

letting the rest of the design fade back into invisibility

the boxes lean in towards each other to butt heads

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

Gang of Painted Folk Art Clothes Pin People with Monogrammed Backs punch paper drawings but here this beautiful smallNo 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