Visceral Black Tape Wrapped Ball treen box with handle he some some challenging times

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The piece measures 6" tall x 12" long x 3/8" deep

which I purchased from a seller in Oregon

with a clothespin glued to a piece of wood for the clip

presumably representing the trunk of a tree

Visceral Black Tape Wrapped Ball treen box with handle he some some challenging timesI didn't know what this curious ball was when I found it, but have learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar and with the salvaged core peeking out here and there. Quite an evocative thing I think. Approx 3" in diameter and tightly wrapped.