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I vividly remember visiting Skansen—an open-air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrialization—on a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago

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One can almost make out the handwriting on the pages

Large, Brilliantly Painted 1940 Folk Art Tabletop Desk, with Roosters charming bear " I have seen aThere are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something, and rationalize that even if no one else falls in love with it, I'll be happy just to keep it for myself. Like this gloriously hand painted desk, signed on the back "To my son, Da Mumma" and dated 1940. It's large to be a lap desk, but would be a handy thing to stash all of one's stuff inside in order to move from table to table, wherever one want might to work, or draw, or paint, and