Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Incised into the clay at

Incised into the clay at top is a march of Egyptian inspired (or just kind of Egyptian-styled) iconography

which feels rather miraculous

There were a few different iterations of double sided "Pocket Signal Disks" like this one--I've seen one issued by the Boy Scouts

and a poem on the other hailing safe return

Sold in the frame I found it in

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Incised into the clay atThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches