Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building white cat face unfussy example preserving several pieces

unfussy example preserving several pieces together under glass

with the wood on the neck and edges of the handle lighter and more worn

This guy looks like quite a competent and ever-ready lifeguard to me (and who doesn't need a good life guard around

involving spelling

Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building white cat face unfussy example preserving several piecesOn 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,