Douglas Risely & Sons, Thrapston, England, Full Dead Stock Butcher Paper Roll studio pottery platter 8" x 7 1/6" across

8" x 7 1/6" across at base/mount

Hill (NYC) are beautiful alphabet blocks from the 2nd half of the 19th century

and more for the White House

though I think it is all to the good

with a bit of darkening to the boxwood (which is buttery smooth and just gorgeous) of the exterior

Douglas Risely & Sons, Thrapston, England, Full Dead Stock Butcher Paper Roll studio pottery platter 8" x 7 1/6" acrossI found this untouched, huge roll of true butcher paper at an antiques shop in Maine, and know from the seller that it came out of a Maine estate, but the butcher shop in question, Douglas Risely & Sons, was located in Thrapston, England. One might think that when I go out hunting for things I am actively making choices, but more often it seems I am just there to let things choose me and this is one of those things that demanded I bring it home,