Wonderful Antique Painted Wood Fragment with Birds in a Row Bert Potter music While I didn't know it

While I didn't know it when I bought it--though I was pretty sure it was something special--I've learned that this gorgeous

It's really a lovely thing

I might just fill it with paperclips and set it on the desk

blues and greens

The painting has not been touched

Wonderful Antique Painted Wood Fragment with Birds in a Row Bert Potter music While I didn't know itI'm not entirely sure from what this painted wooden fragment was salvaged perhaps a piece of moulding, or furniture in a child's room? but I'm sure glad someone saved it, as it's one of my favorite new old things, and quite old indeed I do believe. Two great shades of old blue paint, and then these wonderful hand painted marching red birds in great dark red. I find this about as satisfying as a fragment of an ancient frieze, which I actually think it