Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card blanche wood Staffordshire transferware child's mugs

Staffordshire transferware child's mugs

Original cardboard top included as well

and with the larger of the blocks having holes all the way around for building off of in any direction

I take the large figure for a snowman

Sturdy and with all pieces well attached

Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card blanche wood Staffordshire transferware child's mugsI just can't resist these old thread color sample cards when I come across them yet another means of delivering the pure joy of color, and the more colors the better, 120 of them here. Plus the satisfying geometry of all those tightly pulled lines of threads, composing a grid. Pretty rose colored cloth over board cover with embossed gold lettering, too, reading simply "Premier Art Embroidery Silk." Late 19th c. very early 20th c. I believe. Closed: 8