Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland The bottom of the piece

The bottom of the piece is signed "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia

in the nice old wooden frame I found it in

but sturdy and stable and stands flush to the ground

Sold in the old red cardboard box I found them in

Wear to the lower left corner

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland The bottom of the pieceI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.