Beautifully Shaped and Aged Tall Antique French Skittles with Two Balls rustic pitcher 3 7/8" t x 1

3 7/8" t x 1 5/8" in diameter

This striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904-1981) titled Market: Riga is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling in the 1930s (I believe Riga refers to Riga

It measures 5 7/8" x 3 3/8" x 3/8"

in large part as a result of finding wonderful objects like this brass duck-shaped clip

Beautifully Shaped and Aged Tall Antique French Skittles with Two Balls rustic pitcher 3 7/8" t x 1I know these tall pins were recently nabbed at a flea market in Paris, and then I purchased them from the seller who brought them home to Maine. It takes a lot to sell me on wooden skittles at this point, which one comes across fairly often, but these I was sold on immediately for the beauty and grace of of their elongated turned forms, and also for the very subtle red and blue paint color still on them just lovely.(As with most everything, these are