Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign splint basket still standing tall

still standing tall

Complete set of nine pins and two balls on smoothly rolling cart

but that might be my guess

One of the things I really love about this unusually large English schoolgirl sampler is that it includes both alphabets and numbers (including roman numbers I-V) AND darning samples (the square patterns on the lower half)

When you get them together

Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign splint basket still standing tallThis old PONY sign is, to me, pure perfection. Aesthetically, this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets, but then is a made a hundred times better yet for spelling out the word "Pony" which, in my mind, embodies the dreamy dreams of adolescent girls everywhere; visions of a sugar cube and carrot eating, blue ribbon winning, gentle and true, gracefully galloping horse. The hand painted letters march along a horizontal