Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat A bit of glare in

A bit of glare in photos

and Hannah Appleton)--and that he is posing at Crane Beach in Ipswich

but with thicker wood for the base and thinner paint/stain giving on orange color to the exterior of the house--with a matching orange walkway making its way to what I take for a sidewalk

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Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat A bit of glare inI've had just a couple of these old oil cloth balls over the years, and know they're pretty hard to come by. I've seem them described both as toy balls for children and as carnival or juggling balls I'm not entirely sure which is the case, but I think they're gorgeous and the softened but radiant well worn red and yellow on this one especially so. Clearly, its been well used and loved, with, it looks to me, one seam re sewn many years ago. All the