M&W, Morgantown & Wheeling Train with Coal Car, c. 1910s Folk Painting on Linen handmade jewelry box which sure seems like the

which sure seems like the product of a certain obsessiveness

I don't pay much attention to old pulleys

done with tiny seed beads very tightly stitched to hide

found inside

but this was the one figurative print of the lot

M&W, Morgantown & Wheeling Train with Coal Car, c. 1910s Folk Painting on Linen handmade jewelry box which sure seems like theI really love this painting, with a wonderful warmth and richness to the palette that makes it feel illuminated by late afternoon light. From what I've been able to dig up, I believe this M&W is for the Morgantown and Wheeling Railway, a historic coal hauling short line railroad in West Virginia which despite its name never reached Wheeling, only operating west from Morgantown to Brave, PA, between 1913 and 1923, and from what I can tell it was