Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish with these carved and painted

with these carved and painted stars against orange grounds

lasting 20 minutes for a trip

with old handmade ones like this one priced quite dearly

birds and abstract shapes that read like fanciful handles of long thin swords) I’d bet are one of a kind

Between those bright eyes with star-like black lashes and these fantastic ballooning pants

Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish with these carved and paintedI 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