Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask To my eye a total

To my eye a total charmer

I have found these work better on some kinds of paper than others

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

The watercolor landscape she is set amid (with stream running through the middle of it which she seems ready to magically float across) is shaped like two overlapping hearts

Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask To my eye a totalI assume this clock face would have been made for teaching time, but it seems curious that each hour would be divided into five rather than six segments, marking 12 minutes at a time rather than 10! Whoever made it did take care to make those delineations, though, carving them into the wood as well, it appears, as marking them with graphite. I was just immediately attracted to the look of it, with the red painted numbers popping against the much aged