Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign splint basket When you get them together

When you get them together

beautiful speckled brown glaze on the exterior and black on the interior

but that might be my guess

One of the things I really love about this unusually large English schoolgirl sampler is that it includes both alphabets and numbers (including roman numbers I-V) AND darning samples (the square patterns on the lower half)

still standing tall

Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign splint basket When you get them togetherThis old PONY sign is, to me, pure perfection. Aesthetically, this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets, but then is a made a hundred times better yet for spelling out the word "Pony" which, in my mind, embodies the dreamy dreams of adolescent girls everywhere; visions of a sugar cube and carrot eating, blue ribbon winning, gentle and true, gracefully galloping horse. The hand painted letters march along a horizontal