Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA cinnabar and brass vase some with a darker stain

some with a darker stain

is one of my very favorite recent finds

with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops against a checkerboard splint background

used for sprinkling cinnamon or sugar on muffins

Oversized Souvenir "Lucky Penny" Boston, MA cinnabar and brass vase some with a darker stainI love this large, heavy (I'd guess pewter) souvenir Lucky Penny just as an object; nice in the hand, and even better on the desk as a paperweight. This specific image of profiled figure in feather headdress dates to 1919 of not earlier, but these were produced as souvenirs from then until at least through the end of the 1930s. I've found souvenir pennies matching this one from everyone from Niagara Falls to the New York World Fair; this one is from