Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland but it feels rather more

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

through tiny cuts in the leather wrap

Wear to the lower left corner

Sold in the old red cardboard box I found them in

The bottom of the piece is signed "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland but it feels rather moreI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.