Farmhouse with Lighthouse and Train Station Vintage Needlepoint picture of farm or Japanning

or Japanning

while the design on the interior container is more pronounced

Very 1980s New York

Some wear and light rusting to the candleholder

and imagine that he referred to it quite a lot

Farmhouse with Lighthouse and Train Station Vintage Needlepoint picture of farm or JapanningA farmhouse WITH a light house PLUS a train station AND a horse and buggyI love how this vintage needlepoint is pretty much everything but the kitchen sink, and very New England coast. The little details, too, are pretty great, from the woman gathering laundry off the line, to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks, to the leafy trees, to men shooting the breeze next to the buggy filled with bags of coal (?), and American flag