SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes I would think 1840s-50s on

I would think 1840s-50s on this

I presume done by a child named Dora long ago--the watercolored letters spelling out "A Merry Xmas" certainly seem so--but what a fantastically elegant frog (toad

with general wear all over and surface dings here  and there

but it appears well attached

including for the fact that the cow balances quite well on the back of the horse (though not quite so much vice verse

SOLD 4:48, Unusual, Excellent, Rather Mysterious Old Painted Velvet Clock Pin Cushion curative recipes I would think 1840s-50s onThis struck me as so unusual when I found it, and indeed I can't find any other example of old pin cushion with a stencil painted clock face like this out there anywhere. And what to make of the very specific position of the hands, marking 4: 48 precisely? One sometimes sees 19th century pin cushions made to celebrate a birth (particularly with messages spelled out in stick pins); perhaps the time here marks the moment of a child's arrival in the