Beautifully Crackled c. Early 20th C. Handmade Balls - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY fowler and wells If this isn't a poignant

If this isn't a poignant distillation of the human condition

by whom I've turned up a few other paintings out there

but I think this is a Rottweiler

Essayists include cognitive scientist Richard Held

Beautifully Crackled c. Early 20th C. Handmade Balls - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY fowler and wells If this isn't a poignantNot my expertise, but I have found a few listings out there for balls closely resembling these two, describing them as late 19th early 20th c. baseballs (and valuing them VERY highly.) I think the age is right, but they look to me to have been sewn of oil cloth, and I think its possible these were made as carnival knock down balls. In any case, I think they're quite beautiful things, with nicely irregular hand stitching in blue thread, and great all