Native Mushrooms, Extra Fancy, Wonderfully Aged Old Rubber on Print Block hand-painted napkin rings The wrap around porch with

The wrap around porch with rounded sides on the largest just kills me

but within a few feet of one another

with the cultivar apparently brought from Warren County

) And then all of this amazing ornament--silver and gold wirework and paper coiling forming ribbons and flowers and flourishes

which have lost most of its black paint

Native Mushrooms, Extra Fancy, Wonderfully Aged Old Rubber on Print Block hand-painted napkin rings The wrap around porch withLove at first sight with this one a large rubber print block mounted to (heavy) wood, made for stamping crates (I presume) with "Native Extra Fancy Mushrooms, Patriot Parkway, Revere, MA." For whatever reason, the aged surface of the rubber now feels to me exactly aligned with the character of mushrooms (especially ones from Revere, Mass.), and the icon at center looks to me like a little mole or gopher turning up a 'shroom though perhaps I'm