SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket A simple but very nicely

A simple but very nicely done old whimsy chain

the smaller (which I am just throwing in with the other) is locked and would need a Chinese key (which looks like a large

But here is it

I'd guess 1940s-50s

I found a handful of old Ballantine beer cans a few years ago

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion copper bucket A simple but very nicelyThis struck me as so unusual when I found it, and indeed I can't find any other example of old pin cushion with a stencil painted clock face like this out there anywhere. And what to make of the very specific position of the hands, marking 4: 48 precisely? One sometimes sees 19th century pin cushions made to celebrate a birth (particularly with messages spelled out in stick pins); perhaps the time here marks the moment of a child's arrival in the