Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial antique ships which in some child's imagination

which in some child's imagination surely embarked on all sorts of sea adventures

no matter at all

causing the paper ultimately to split

I wish I had four mugs

so that I could use it all of the time

Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial antique ships which in some child's imaginationI've always got an eye out for folk art clock dials like this, which I believe would have been used for teaching learning how to read time on a clock. I love the simple earnestness of this one, and that it is shaped like the silhouette of a house, and especially those cut tin hands of the dial, the elongated form of which I think lends a certain elegance and grace to the whole thing. The roman numerals of the dial appear to have been incised then