Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red and an especially empathetic one

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

which differ radically from newer examples

with each inch divided into 32nds on the flip side

and decidedly modern

I like how the bright red of the 35 gives way to the (more nuanced and complex

Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red and an especially empathetic oneMy general philosophy is to buy things whose sheer existence makes me happy, which is certainly the case with this, surely once the side of a trunk, iron handle still in place, and which someone cared enough to salvage. The red breasted yellow bird on branch of what looks a bit like bleeding hearts gives me all the pleasure of a fraktur watercolor, with the wavy yellow border and then dovetailed edges of the panel making the perfect frame! Plus that