Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box Pins measures 6 1/2" tall

Pins measures 6 1/2" tall and 1 7/8" across at shoulders

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

and Arts & Crafts era craft

I believe dating to the 19th century

I don't know a lot about glass

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters tall copper box Pins measures 6 1/2" tallThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and