Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building wooden knife tray Sent from Long Island to

Sent from Long Island to Syracuse

not a fussy thing about it but with the hand of its maker very palpable

narrow waist

4 3/16" x 1 9/16"

What a face

Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building wooden knife tray Sent from Long Island toOn the back of this little building is written "Knowles Steam Pump", pointing to Warren, MA, I believe, where the Knowles Steam Pump factory operated in the last quarter of the 1800s, prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge, MA. And what a marvelous little building it is, made of a solid wooden block clad in perfect old white paint with graphite drawn windows, and enhanced through the addition of pitched roof,