Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster and most especially for them

and most especially for them having taking the care to correct a not quite right first attempt at the "e" in Goffsehalk

A perfect gift from a father to a son or daughter with a love for early English transferware I'd say

though I certainly admire the incredible care and craft invested--but this old chair

with the design etched into the wood like a pyrograph

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster and most especially for themAnother example of mends making something much more special. This is an antique oyster painted pantry box (no lid), to my eye made very beautiful by the nail repairs to the splits along the bottom long ago, which have the effect of calling attention to the sweeping lines of those splits, and giving a sense of gesture and movement to the whole thing. On the flip side are nails marching up the front, but it is the otherwise spare mended side (with