Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat Sherman for middle school

Sherman for middle school

I just love this image of young woman in fancy hat perched on what looks like a tree stump

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

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Antique Well Loved Red and Yellow Oil Cloth Carnival / Juggling Ball handmade stuffed cat Sherman for middle schoolI'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