Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture On the underside of the

On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958

a truly lovely object

and could be made to cast some wonderfully dramatic shadows

The fineness of this example makes me think it has a good bit of age to it

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large inuit sculpture On the underside of theI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A