Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland and fertilizer in addition to

and fertilizer in addition to beef tea

through tiny cuts in the leather wrap

and also like that it looks a bit like a miniature rusty globe

oil on board

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland and fertilizer in addition toI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.