Endure the Cross Antique Punch Paper Embroidery antique British draughts et cetera—but due to the

et cetera—but due to the misdeeds of failed protohumans

It feels 100% mid-century Danish to me (like a super painterly version of Inge-Lise Koefoed's pieces for Royal Copenhagen's Tenera line) but even with a magnifier I can't quite read to very faint marks on the underside

as was the case with this whimsy rattle

The colors are a bit brighter than in photos - the light green in pretty electric

makes me think this more toward the earlier rather than later 19th c

Endure the Cross Antique Punch Paper Embroidery antique British draughts et cetera—but due to theI've become quite a fan of late 19th century punch paper embroideries, especially ones combining text and image, of which there are quite a wide (and sometimes wonderfully weird) variety. I like the delicacy of the tiny stitches on this one, not well conveyed in photos, and the sprawling vines growing out from the heart with cross above. The subtlety of the pale pink text also makes it feel as if just whispering its message of endurance. Dimensions: 4