Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels French faience Really a sweet little painting

Really a sweet little painting

The windows are glass

Grain painting was done with vinegar and different color stains and/or tinted lacquers

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Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels French faience Really a sweet little paintingThese I know came of the estate of a historic general store in Maine, and I just think they are the loveliest things, dating I'd guess to the late 19th century. They are were wooden spools for ribbon of various lengths and widths that ribbon long gone now but for one spool still wound in white satin ribbon. What makes them so lovely and special feeling through are the hand cut, hand printed paper labels adhered to each side, bearing lion and eagle and