Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA 2005 And what a terrific ashtray

And what a terrific ashtray it is

These wonderful drawings of horses (one on each side) remind me so much of Native American ledger drawings (which are some of my favorite things in the world)

has clearly been much used and loved

I believe the form is of a helicopter--spinning propeller at top

One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA 2005 And what a terrific ashtrayI was told that this wonderful old tin mill came from the Dummer estate in Rowley, MA (more below) and was commissioned by one of the Dummers as a model of sorts of the original colonial era fulling mill on the property built by John Pearson on the Mill River, and significantly responsible for making Rowley the birthplace of the American woolen industry. It's a bit confusing, as there were several iterations of the fulling mill, and there was also a