Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) striped blanket Strangest are the arms--one entirely

Strangest are the arms--one entirely missing

I assume it was a company giveaway at some point

I've become quite smitten with stone fruit

I presume African American in origin

Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) striped blanket Strangest are the arms--one entirelyNot in perfect condition, but so charming and so singular, I don't mind and what a lot of work and care Samuel Stevens of West Derby Vermont, who signed the back, invested in making this wall hanging comb box, 150 years ago or so I would guess. It feels to me perhaps connected to Samuel studying geometry, with all of these gridded holes, connected by carved lines, creating triangles within triangles and squares within squares and feeling a bit as if