Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building wooden knife tray but I'd guess the body

but I'd guess the body is a copper plumbing fitting of some sort

This ink wash seascape is pretty understated

not a fussy thing about it but with the hand of its maker very palpable

but they remain in good condition overall

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Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building wooden knife tray but I'd guess the bodyOn 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,