Douglas Risely & Sons, Thrapston, England, Full Dead Stock Butcher Paper Roll studio pottery platter Hill (NYC) are beautiful alphabet

Hill (NYC) are beautiful alphabet blocks from the 2nd half of the 19th century

and this photograph feels like that to me

"what a wonderful idea for a sculpture

With some fraying to the pink silk ribbon and loss to a couple of finger tips

with a bit of darkening to the boxwood (which is buttery smooth and just gorgeous) of the exterior

Douglas Risely & Sons, Thrapston, England, Full Dead Stock Butcher Paper Roll studio pottery platter Hill (NYC) are beautiful alphabetI found this untouched, huge roll of true butcher paper at an antiques shop in Maine, and know from the seller that it came out of a Maine estate, but the butcher shop in question, Douglas Risely & Sons, was located in Thrapston, England. One might think that when I go out hunting for things I am actively making choices, but more often it seems I am just there to let things choose me and this is one of those things that demanded I bring it home,