Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat ) A mix of black

) A mix of black and blue ink

and Hannah Appleton)--and that he is posing at Crane Beach in Ipswich

but first the box

I just love this image of young woman in fancy hat perched on what looks like a tree stump

but with thicker wood for the base and thinner paint/stain giving on orange color to the exterior of the house--with a matching orange walkway making its way to what I take for a sidewalk

Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat ) A mix of blackI've had just a couple of these old oil cloth balls over the years, and know they're pretty hard to come by. I've seem them described both as toy balls for children and as carnival or juggling balls I'm not entirely sure which is the case, but I think they're gorgeous and the softened but radiant well worn red and yellow on this one especially so. Clearly, its been well used and loved, with, it looks to me, one seam re sewn many years ago. All the