SOLD Bold and Lyrical Antique Hanging Pin Keep / Needle Book navigational compass I'll be buying these old

I'll be buying these old German wooden houses whenever I come across them until the end of my days

and very Japanese

with what looks to me an old repair to the top of one section

and provokes (in me at least) that youthful feeling of aspiring to advance to the next barre

and while I'd guess made as an incense holder I'd just treat it as a head

SOLD Bold and Lyrical Antique Hanging Pin Keep / Needle Book navigational compass I'll be buying these oldThis one for me is all about color and pattern, with this great color blocking of tan and (thinly striped) blue and white silk on the face, turned into a drawing with the lyrical application of that red thread. Feels like a poem, and a painting. The hinged face flips up to reveal several fabric "pages" for holding needles underneath, and then room for pins all around the sides. With green silk moire on reverse. 7" t (as hung) x 3 3 8" w x 3 4" d.