The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign 1" across at opening

1" across at opening

The primary glaze is a rich mustard-y yellow-brown

gentle painting

and one could use it as a tasting or a serving spoon--or

One finds a fair number of handmade doggy doorstops from the 1940s and 50s (I wonder if they were something people made in shop class

The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign 1" across at openingToo fun to resist, and I thought surely this one would make the perfect gift for the runner of an auction house, or for someone regularly on the other end of things, watching things as they are going going gone! I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child, and it seems to be quite a rare one an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, which would go on top become A&P. (Founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company", within a