Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box with the letter and numbers

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

Pins measures 6 1/2" tall and 1 7/8" across at shoulders

I don't know a lot about glass

In the basement was the husband's woodshop

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box with the letter and numbersThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and