P.A. Baker, Silver Foil and Reverse Painted Glass Nameplate with Scalloped Edge wool weaving with red inside the mouth

with red inside the mouth as the perfect final touch

or hung on a wall

and I believe quite old--it has the feeling of French tapestries to me

though I have found nothing about her

Stable and sound and not very fragile

P.A. Baker, Silver Foil and Reverse Painted Glass Nameplate with Scalloped Edge wool weaving with red inside the mouthPerhaps not everyone shares my enthusiasm for old nameplates of unknown people, but I love the idea of a vast collection of them a community of long lost friends. A perfect vehicle for a study of styles and fonts, too. And hard to beat reverse painted black glass and silver foil with scalloped bevelled edge as far as styles go. Plus I thought just the right thing for, say, a bread maker from Pennsylvania! 4" x 1 1 2" x 1 4" thick. Black painted tin