Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools gilded whimsy All of the drawers

All of the drawers

I'm not a sailor

and general style

General wear to the paper label on the box but overall in good shape

one-of-a-kind box and board with great character and  many years of play left in it

Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools gilded whimsy All of the drawersNo way could I resist this large folk art pin cushion, which combines many of my favorite things: grids, and words, and lists, and embroidery, and family names and, of course, is a pin cushion, too. It appears to have been made in 1907, with the name Clement written on the embroidered grid running around the sides just after that date, and then with more names added over time, terminating in 1942 (though perhaps 1907 was the birth year of the maker,