Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces down to the the tassels

down to the the tassels and loops hanging from the shades in the bay windows of the house

Perhaps useful reminders to eat your greens

One one side is

I am guessing she was African American

Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces down to the the tasselsI've had a bit of a string of acquiring things I find quite evocative but know very little about and here's another! I have no idea how or why this gold painted ball with hooks all over came to be, but I love it as an object, and it would make a pretty effective hanger now for rings of keys, or necklaces, or sprigs of mistletoe! There is a loop at top from which it could be hung from a wire or ribbon or string I might suggest from the ceiling so as to