Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch antique needlework 3 1/8" long x approx

3 1/8" long x approx

The squares are hand numbered in ink

and the resourcefulness so many of them represent

Jones’s philosophy since 1967 when he turned to his youthful hobby of whittling after his first wife’s death and his retirement from forty-five years with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch antique needlework 3 1/8" long x approxMy general philosophy is to buy things whose sheer existence makes me happy, which is certainly the case with this, surely once the side of a trunk, iron handle still in place, and which someone cared enough to salvage. The red breasted yellow bird on branch of what looks a bit like bleeding hearts gives me all the pleasure of a fraktur watercolor, with the wavy yellow border and then dovetailed edges of the panel making the perfect frame! Plus that